Mani Kaul

Mani Kaul’s last film documents his days in Holland and his engagement in India with that form of cinema which for him was the Big Other ...

This film suggests a network of hierarchical relations between people through sometimes subtle and at other times blunt illustrations.

Despite its suggestive title, this multi-part Danish omnibus film is not a work of exploitation. Instead, it presents 20 different short films ...

A very clever parrot lives in a Hindu palace, surrounded by many beautiful girls, but the parrot escapes, and is trapped far from the palace. One ...

A middle-aged antique dealer and money lender recollects his marriage to a 17-year-old orphan girl.

An impressionistic biographical look at Siddheshwari Devi (1908–1977), the classical Indian singer whose voice was appreciated by the maharajas ...

A ‘filmscape’ on the Kashmir valley.

In a poetic hour and a half, director Mani Kaul looks at the ancient art of making pottery from a wide variety of perspectives.

A documentary story told through images, poetry and the Dhrupad, a vocal genre in Hindustani classical music, said to be the oldest still in use ...

Based on the text written by Vijaydan Detha and Kamal Kothari, the film is set in the arid desert of Rajasthan, a setting similar to Duvidha, ...

Taking an experimental approach to the relationship between the written text and moving image, Mani Kaul has a series of texts read aloud in ...

To the city come men, women, fruits, flowers, vegetables, goats and sheep – all ready for consumption. It is the process of ...