General Information

Original Title

Détour par Calcutta

Author/Creator

Rossier, François, director.

Language

English.

Subtitles

English

Published

Switzerland : Belle Journée Productions, 2004.

Physical Description

VHS (50 min.)

Contents/Summary

Summary

One day, the director meets a friend of the mayor of Calcutta who asks him: "You're a film maker, aren't you? Why don't you make a film about our mayor?!" That is how the film was born. Originally planned as a simple portrait of Calcutta's mayor, it gradually becomes - through various difficulties met on location (bureaucracy, the director's preconceived ideas, heat) - an essay on tinkering about, and chaos, and a reflection on the documentary genre. In this shooting diary, the director speaks in first person voiceover, without trying to hide what's off camera. On the contrary: that's where he points his lens, looking for a good subject, because his main character - the mayor - disappears after the first third of the shoot. We are taken through an Indian sub-continent metropolis of 17 million inhabitants, led by astonishing chances which the director - a little Swiss - reorganizes in his own style, so that his beautiful escape becomes ours too.

Subjects

Genre

Documentary films

Bibliographic Information

Title Translation

Detour Calcutta

Note

Duration: 00:50:00

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Call Number	Status	Shelving Location	Public Note
VHS	OSA Film Library	FL Record 0946	Available	-	-