ZUMEFF 2021 HONORABLE MENTION – DOCUMENTARY
Synopsis
There is a loss of feeling. A loss which cannot be put into words. There was something lost when something was replaced by something new. Celluloid woman is a short peek into the life of an archivist who surprise you with her discipline with the medium often coming to an open conflict with the filmmaker. This conflict may tickle your funny bone. It’s also of imprinting the life of a person who helped us see things in beauty. It’s also a tribute to all the stars who never imprinted themselves.
About the filmmaker
Anantha Krishnan is deeply involved in cinematographic and photographic storytelling. He traveled across India for geographically exploration of the socio-political structure. He worked as cinematographer for Tehelka music project, in New Delhi, and, also with a documentary curating initiative called magiclanternmovies. Finally, as a video volunteer he worked at Primitive Seed Movement in navdanya. His ambition is to contemplate on the borders of practice and theory of documentary and fiction. He started his study at Gandhigram Rural Institute in Tamilnadu. After doing Development Studies he received a Summer Fellowship from National Human Rights Commission nhrc.nic.in to do a short-term research on human rights violations in India. He went on to complete his studies in community media at Tata Institute of Social Science in Mumbai tiss.edu. Afterwards, Ananthakrishnan received a Camargo Foundation Residency Art Fellowship in France to work on his working progress feature documentary Shadows of gandhi. Then he got accepted in the Summer Travelling Film School Cinemadamare 2018 in Italy cinemadamare, where he shot five short films during the period of two months.
Anantha Krishnan’s photography projects have been exhibited at STIGMART10 in Video Focus Biennial Edition , International Art Exhibition Nord Art 2016 in Germany, Screengrab Award 2014 in Australia, and International Festival of Photography PhotoVisa in Russia. His short documentaries and short films were widely screened at many international film festivals. At the moment he is doing the DOC NOMADS Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree 2017-2019 (EMJMD) in Documentary Filmmaking delivered by a consortium of the University of Lusofona in Portugal, University of Theatre and Film in Hungary and St. Lucas School of Arts in Belgium. AWARDS Annanthakrishnan won the National Student Contest at the International Year of Planet Earth in 2018. He also won twice the Best Cinematography Awards during the tenth Cinemadamare edition in 2018.
