Amit Dutta (born 5 September 1977 in Jammu) is an Indian experimental
filmmaker and writer. He is considered to be one of the most
significant contemporary practitioners of experimental cinema, known
for his distinctive style of filmmaking rooted in Indian aesthetic
theories and personal symbolism resulting in images that are visually
rich and acoustically stimulating. His works mostly deal with subjects
of art history, ethno-anthropology and cultural inheritance through
cinema, many times merging research and documentation with an open
imagination.Amit Dutta graduated from the Film and Television
Institute of India, Pune in 2004, which has many important and notable
alumni of filmmakers across India. He has taught at the National
Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad. In 2015, he joined Indian
Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla as a Tagore fellow.Amit
Dutta began his career making several short experimental films which
critics described as “without precedents except probably for a
distant echo of Sergey Parajanov's avant-garde play with childhood
memories, making the director probably the most singular and
idiosyncratic in the world." His montages are considered as baffling
the eye as well as the urge to interpret, being interwoven with a
complex labyrinth of allusions from historical reminiscences,
fairytales, children's stories, texture etc.Kramasha (To Be
Continued), an experimental short film made in 2007, earned
considerable acclaim from film scholars and critics and was considered
to be a defining achievement in experimental cinema. After winning
many national and international awards, it was included in the list of
thousand best films of all times compiled by film critic Jonathan
Rosenbaum who also described the film as “a dazzling, virtuoso piece
of mise en scene in 35-millimeter, full of uncanny imagery about the
way the narrator imagines the past of his village and his family.â€
It was also voted as one of the best films in the Senses of Cinema
poll in 2007.
filmmaker and writer. He is considered to be one of the most
significant contemporary practitioners of experimental cinema, known
for his distinctive style of filmmaking rooted in Indian aesthetic
theories and personal symbolism resulting in images that are visually
rich and acoustically stimulating. His works mostly deal with subjects
of art history, ethno-anthropology and cultural inheritance through
cinema, many times merging research and documentation with an open
imagination.Amit Dutta graduated from the Film and Television
Institute of India, Pune in 2004, which has many important and notable
alumni of filmmakers across India. He has taught at the National
Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad. In 2015, he joined Indian
Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla as a Tagore fellow.Amit
Dutta began his career making several short experimental films which
critics described as “without precedents except probably for a
distant echo of Sergey Parajanov's avant-garde play with childhood
memories, making the director probably the most singular and
idiosyncratic in the world." His montages are considered as baffling
the eye as well as the urge to interpret, being interwoven with a
complex labyrinth of allusions from historical reminiscences,
fairytales, children's stories, texture etc.Kramasha (To Be
Continued), an experimental short film made in 2007, earned
considerable acclaim from film scholars and critics and was considered
to be a defining achievement in experimental cinema. After winning
many national and international awards, it was included in the list of
thousand best films of all times compiled by film critic Jonathan
Rosenbaum who also described the film as “a dazzling, virtuoso piece
of mise en scene in 35-millimeter, full of uncanny imagery about the
way the narrator imagines the past of his village and his family.â€
It was also voted as one of the best films in the Senses of Cinema
poll in 2007.
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