volume zero_ the work of charles correa
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VOLUME ZERO: THE WORK OF CHARLESCORREADirected by: Arun KhopkarDuration: 58 | India, 2009
BiographyArun Khopkar (Mumbai, 1945)has directed two feature filmsthat have been shown atvarious international festivalsand made non-feature filmsthat have won severa l nationaland international awards (hewon India’s national filmaward, the Golden Lotus, threetimes).He has contributed papers onfilm aesthetics to variousnational and internationaljournals and has taught filmtheory and practice at variousinstitutions.
Filmography2009: Volume Zero:the workof Charles Correa2006: Pravahi2004: Santiniketan: Aflashback2002: Narayan GangaramSurve2002: Haathi Ka Anda2000: Rasikapriya2000: Lokapriya1996: Katha DoanGanpatraonchi1993: Colours of Absence1992: Sanchari1990: Figures of thought
Composers
Direction &Production:
Arun Khopkar
Cinematography: SudhirPalsane,Manoj Peter,RajendraJangley,SudhakarReddy
Editing &AssociateDirector:
SankalpMeshram
Narration: BenjaminGilani
Sound: AnitaKushwaha,VinodSubramaniam
SummaryVolume Zero is an hour-longvideo on the work and ideas ofCharles Correa, one of world’sleading architects.It deals with his childhood,architectural tra ining, formativeyears, important designs, theparadigms underlying hiscomplex and large oeuvre, hisrole in urban planning and hiswork on low cost housing.It ends with a future project thatbrings many of these paradigmstogether.
Ôhe director about his filmFor many years I have beenmaking films on various artforms: dance, painting,literature and music, through aseries of films on the work ofvarious artists.The broad objective was to findappropriate cinematic forms thatwould not only convey the spiritof the art forms and theindividual artists, but also makea new, different form of cinema,valid as cinema and not a mere'documentation'.VOLUME ZERO is one such filmthat searches to find anappropriate cinematic form forthe work of one of world'sleading architects, who has donemuch to invest architecture withmetaphysical meaning throughdifferent models of cosmos.
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