Films
Curated film screenings at Frame 2025 attempt to showcase a panorama of moving images that form a narrative around the idea of drawing as a core process in representation of space.
Picturing Life (2024)
51 minutes
A film by Harshil Bhanushali
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This film is a unique cinematic experience that brings Sudhir Patwardhan’s paintings to life. It explores the various aspects of the painter’s work by structuring the film around his journey as a painter in the city of Mumbai, oscillating between social and personal concerns.
Sol LeWitt (2012)
87 minutes
Directed by Chris Teerink
'Conceptual artists leap to conclusions logic cannot reach,' Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) said in a rare audio-interview from 1974. Notoriously camera-shy, Lewitt refused awards and rarely granted interviews, yet in Chris Teerink's sensitive cinematic portrait, the pioneering conceptual American artist comes alive.
LeWitt's artwork can be seen as obsession pushed to the limit of paradox and absurdity: simple ideas, communicated simply-often with a set of instructions sent by fax-lead to overwhelming visual and intellectual complexity. For example, to create Wall drawing #801: Spiral, a white line spirals down the black wall of a cupola 3.2 miles long. The film documents the piece's 2011 installation in Maastricht, the Netherlands, which takes eight assistants 30 days to complete. When the painstaking work is done and the scaffolding taken away, the result is the transformative.
Using extensive interviews and documentation of artwork installed around the world, in the acclaimed documentary Sol LeWitt, director Chris Teerink explores the artist's work and philosophy.
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Spirit of the Forest (2022)
7 minutes
A film by Nirupa Rao, Nandini Rao and Kalp Sanghvi
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Walking home from school, a little girl stumbles into a sacred grove near her village in south India. Here, she disturbs the grove’s resident spirit, who takes her on an adventure illuminating the evolution of this ancient swamp: from the origins of the Indian subcontinent at the breakup of Gondwanaland, through the times of her ancestors, up to the present day. This film attempts to make plants more than just background scenery, with all flora and fauna accurate to the local habitat. Wild nutmeg or ‘Myristica’ species are especially prominent, with their aerial roots sticking up above the ground. The film is inspired by indigenous practices of protecting relict forests through folklore grounded in ecological principle.
Through the Eyes of a Painter (1967)
17 minutes
Directed by M F Hussain
Made by M F Hussain who belongs to the progressive group of painters, this experimental film presents the painter's images of Rajasthan, through cinema.
An Old Dog's Diary (2015)
11 minutes
A film by Shumona Goel and Shai Heredia
An Old Dog’s Diary assembles, in puzzle-piece evocations, a portrait of an artist. The film links fragments of his writings, letters and drawings that are charged with memories of an unsettled life.
Koodal (1970)
16 minutes
Directed by Tyeb Mehta
A film on the synthesis of images. The symbolic image of Mahatma Gandhi, the metamorphosis of life as in bull's image, the love of Gods in Madurai and the losing of identity in an active situation has been executed textually and environmentally in terms of cinema with the principal intention of alienating both the image and the action to make a protest against violence.
A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of Things in the Universe (1968)
8 minutes
A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of Things in the Universe is a film created by Charles and Ray Eames of the Eames Office in 1968
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Charles and Ray Eames of the Eames Office created three films investigating the idea of an exponential series. The first was a “truck test” to develop the idea, then came the fleshed-out film titled A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of Things in the Universe in 1968. Nine years later, the Eames Office further illustrated the scale and significance of adding a zero to a number in their film Powers of Ten. The work was an educational tool in advancing the public’s understanding of scale in astronomy and biology, and is still regarded as an innovation in filmmaking. Original music score by Elmer Bernstein.
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Sketching Chhaya (2025)
A film on the precise measure of things, and the immeasurable. Trailer (2 minutes)
Produced by Matter. Shot and Edited by: Gasper D'Souza / White Brick Post​
(Releasing Soon)
Neelkanth Chhaya is an architect and academician. He retired as the Dean of the Department of Architecture at CEPT University in Ahmedabad and has served and led academic committees in KRVIA Mumbai; Srishti School of Art, Bengaluru, and Goa College of Architecture amongst many others. In his practice spanning more than 30 years, Prof. Chhaya has researched and worked extensively in the domain of appropriate architecture for India, documenting places of historic significance, and authoring numerous critical papers on the same subject. Additionally, he has served in numerous national committees and been a jury member of several national and international competitions.
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His practice has emphasised adapting built form to physical and social contexts. He is deeply interested in the cultural factors that affect architecture, especially in societies of rapid change.
This film chronicles Chhaya’s ideas on Life and Architecture.
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