PERFORMING DEATH

by Ashish AVIKUNTHAK
2002 / Video / color / sound / 1 screen / 16' 00

Performing Death is a film about Park Street Cemetery in Calcutta, one of the earliest colonial cemeteries in the world. It is a meditation on degradation and abandonment, on the slow unravelling of a legacy whose empire has long since dissolved and whose dead have long since been forgotten.

Direction, Screenplay: Ashish Avikunthak
Cinematography: Ranjan Palit, Ashish Avikunthak
Editing, Sound: Ashish Avikunthak

1 PRINT IN DISTRIBUTION


distribution format Digital file on server (PAL)
screen 1,33 (single screen)
speed 25 fps
sound sound
rental fee 72,00 €