[Reader-list] Screening of Rajula Shah's Katha Loknath

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TWILIGHT FILM CLUB

Invites you to the screening of

Katha Loknath

(With English subtitles/ 2012/ 45 min)

Directed by
Rajula Shah

Date:     Saturday, June 16, 2012
Time:    06:30 pm

Venue:  Hall of Life Devine, Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts & Communication,
New Mehrauli Road, Adchini, New Delhi - 110 017

Phone:  91-011-26561986, 09313012087

About the Film

Loknathji knows many stories. He begins from before the world was
made…and goes on till ever after. The story is about the birth of
story and the child growing through it.

In the words of the director:

No one knows the whole story. Much less where it begins
or ends. Parts of stories lie hidden in the rubble and ruin
of history. Illusive historic truth, absurd evidences eternally
haunt Time until given a place in the story. On the banks
of Mahanadi,in village Sonpur, lives a potter named Loknath.
He knows many stories...Mother talks to the not yet born.
Amidst everyday human babble, electronic chatter and
traffic noise, the newborn dreams the Universe. In flashes of
lightning and rolling thunder, it sleeps and walks through
many tellings of the same Tale; Space consecrated,
Time confused, Loknath, hero of his own Tale, Enters
the landscape as Rudrapal; mythical river whirls into the
Mahanadi of Loknath's daily bath; ancient Tale tied to its tail,
god with feet of clay stalks markets and museums;
Tales curl up as caterpillars on museum plates,
child grows out of a tale into another.

What does a fiction have to do with its documentary
evidence? How does one begin to look for the timeless
in the historical? Can the blanks in History be the lapse
each tale fills in the language of its myth and transFormations?
The everyday, epical, fictional, documentary, poetic, magical,
assume their assigned role in Katha Loknath. An eternity passes.
Old tale gathers moss. Child asks for another.

The film has been made over five years and more in close collaboration
with Loknath Rana, the potter-storyteller from Orissa; Tuka, the kid
who grows up through the film; Shampa, the ceramist and
mother-storyteller & Arghya Basu, the co-cinematographer and editor of
the film.

The director, Rajula Shah, will be there to present the film.

Trailer of the film:
http://vimeo.com/37852692

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Shankhajeet De
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Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts & Communication
www.sac.ac.in