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| Director, Sound, Photography: Ranjan Palit Editing: Mahadeb Shi Producer: Ranjan Palit, Vasuda Joshi Production Company, Source: VECTOR PRODUCTIONS INDIA / 1996 / Bengali / Color / Video / 27 min |
Finished the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune in 1982 with a diploma in cinematography. His diploma film, a 30-minute documentary on the powerloom workers of Bhiwandi, was selected for the Bombay International Film Festival 1983. Started specializing as a documentary cameraperson, shooting a major portion of Bombay, Our City for Anand Patwardhan. Has subsequently shot around 50 documentaries, including: Eleven Miles (1990), Memories of Milk City (1991), Kamlabai (1992), Tales from Planet Kolkatta (1993), Dream Before Wicket (1994). |
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| A look into the mystic world of a blind singer from India who sings of love and death at a holy crematoria. The handheld Hi-8 camera moves freely and gives us a lucid look at this artistic and religious man, as well as at his daily family life. | |
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From Press Files Palit is sensitive, consciously or unconsciously, to the cultural
determinations of speech and the cultural politics of collective
life. Palit's talent for fitting easily into group situations
which may be otherwise guarded about outsiders is clear. Eschewing
the zoom and usually holding the camera, he shoots in close proximity
to his subjects, responding physically to the flow and meaning
of the conversation. He seems to sense instinctively how the camera
wields power, and how to dissipate and share that power. |
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