Muktikara (1999)
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16mm, 11 min, silent
From the Sanskrit, ‘gentle gazing brings liberation’, the title is also the name of the particular body of water
which is the image-subject of the film. Landscape as inscape, not inertly present but beckoning an active perception; a seeing and a seeing into.
...Muktikara resembles nothing so much as a filmic riff on Motherwell's Elegies to a Spanish Republic, his canvas splitting megaform replaced by Liotta with a natural feature and the perceptual discrepanicies it gathers around itself. ...-Michael Sicinski, Green Cine Daily
“as if my eye were still growing” -Gerard Manley Hopkins
...Muktikara resembles nothing so much as a filmic riff on Motherwell's Elegies to a Spanish Republic, his canvas splitting megaform replaced by Liotta with a natural feature and the perceptual discrepanicies it gathers around itself. ...-Michael Sicinski, Green Cine Daily
SCREENINGS
- NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL, VIEWS FROM THE AVANT-GARDE
- ROTTERDAM FILM FESTIVAL
- SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
- MEDIA CITY FILM FESTIVAL, WINDSOR ONTARIO
- BALLROOM MARFA, MARFA TX
- THE SUNDANCE CHANNEL
- VIRGINIA FILM FESTIVAL
- SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART