A stunning film from India that clocks in under five minutes, How the Elephant Lost His Wings brings to life—the life of 3D computer animation—the brass sculptures of Bastar District, Chhattisgarh. This gives Tara Douglas’s film, based on a Muria Gond legend, a “look” that no other film I know of can lay claim to. […]
Daily Archives: April 24, 2009
From Brazil comes a lovely animated film, Tainá-Kan, a grande estrela, based on a Karajá Indian legend. It is about two sisters, Imaerô, who is selfish, and Denakè, whose nature is more ambiguous and elusive. Imaerô wishes upon her favorite star for it to come to Earth as a man so she can marry him. […]
It is hard to say who is the protagonist of Tajik filmmaker Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov’s Luna Papa: 17-year-old Mamlakat, whom we certainly see the most, or her unborn fetus, whose narration we sometimes hear—for me, an irritating device, especially given the fact that this articulate baby-voice ought to have been silenced, and would have been, had […]
Dennis Grunes 