The Game of Shifting Mirrors (2020)
How do the vicissitudes of contemporary notions of nationhood alter our relationship with cultural patrimony? It’s a question obliquely suggested by Amit Dutta’s latest film. As a camera explores the architecture of a museum, we hear a description of a painting we never see. Eventually, we leave the building behind and examine the remains of a temple, explored to weather and war. Sensual and rigourous, The Game of Shifting Mirrors reaffirms Dutta’s place as India’s most accomplished experimental filmmaker -- Michael Sicinski
Director:
Amit Dutta
Writer:
Amit Dutta
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Udayan Vajpeyi as Narrator |
| Camera | Mehul Bhanti | Director of Photography |
| Production | Amit Dutta | Producer |
| Writing | Amit Dutta | Screenplay |
| Camera | Rangarajan Rambadran | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Amit Dutta | Editor |
| Sound | Amit Dutta | Sound |
| Sound | Gauhar Jan | Music |
| Directing | Amit Dutta | Director |
| Sound | Ustad Abdul Karim Khan | Music |
| Sound | Darren Curtis | Music |