Final-Film Festival-13-11-08.p65 - Directorate of Film Festivals

CAST AND CREDITSProduction,Script, Sound Design,Camera, Direction: Vipin VijayEditing:Sujith SahadevArt Direction:Pratap RCast:Atmaja, Kani, Jose RaphelContact: Holygrail Film Studio, 24/273,TSRA: 105, Sasthamkovil Street,Thycud, P.O. Trivandrum – 14,Kerala, India.Phone: (+91) 9847318777E mail: vipinvijay@yahoo.comVIPIN VIJAYVipin Vijay, studied filmmaking at SRFTI,Calcutta. In 2003, he received the CharlesWallace Arts Award for research at the BritishFilm Institute (BFI), London, for a film. Atpresent working on a feature film with asupport from Hubert Bals Film Fund,Rotterdam. He received the Sanskriti Awardfor cultural achievement 2007 in filmmaking.His films have won National Jury Award, Tiger Award-Rotterdam,Golden Pearl-HIFF, International Jury prize, Kodak Award,Kerala State Film & TV Award, IDPA Award, and the JohnAbraham National Awards (2005 and 2006). His films have widelybeen shown in festivals at Rotterdam, Karlovyvary, Oberhausen,Montreal, Japan, Karachi, Tehran, Chicago, Seattle, Berkley,Mexico, Croatia, Milan, and the Indian Panorama.DIRECTOR'S STATEMENTThis work is almost for me like the Fetch-Decode-Executecycle where a male filmmaker attempts to make a film onmenstruation. I would love to recognize the material to addressthe spiritual, which I think I think is also very oriental in a way.This also helped me to look at textures, grainy surface of thematerial itself, which the hard lighting often accentuates further.I am indebted to the great scholar, Judy Grahn whose Metaformictheory postulates that 4 million years ago or more female ancestralprimates recognized their connection with another cycle, whichwas the lunar cycle. A lot of women in our backgrounds weretaught not to converse about menstruation, to be embarrassedof it, to hide it, or to consider it as just biology, which doesn'twarrant any more attention than that.In our culture this hasbeen carried out all across the board, so there's been transferenceof the sacralizing of blood and women's blood mysteries entirelyand solely into the masculine. This work taught me a great dealon self-reflexivity. I think last but not least,it helped to fall inlove with my own body. I don't know if it is worth it. This isalso a video about memory-less-ness!94 95