2017 · documentary
Monsoon
Four artists are given one brief — interpret the monsoon — and find their answer in a ritual dance older than record.
Part of 101 The Brief, a strand that hands a single brief to a group of artists and follows where they take it. The brief was to interpret India’s monsoon through film.
The answer was Theyyam — the ritual dance form of Kerala, in which a performer invokes a deity and becomes its medium, performed before village shrines and dated by some accounts to the Neolithic.
Directed with Academy Award-winning sound designer Resul Pookutty, CAS, MPSE (Academy Award®, BAFTA & National Award Winner), composer Reuel Benedict and cinematographer Hari K. Vedantam, while leading video content at 101India. Winner of Best Documentary at the 69th Montecatini International Film Festival, Italy.