PERSISTENCE RESISTANCE aims to celebrate a cinema space that engages with the diverse nature of films today. There is the effort to bring all the movements of the audiences and matters of films a little closer together, in a collective space to experience the diversity of time.
The term Persistence comes from the phenomenon of ‘PERSISTENCE OF VISION’ explained as a visual phenomenon where an image is retained in the retina of the eye for about 1/16th of a fraction of a second, creating an illusion of continuous motion in film and video. Also, persistence of the idea, the story, the thought that once absorbed is retained in our memory.
Wherein resistance is described as one’s resistance to a concept or thought, that one undergoes, since every person has a different perspective, and one’s idea may be opposed or argued into to come to a logical conclusion.
Documentary cinema is a new way of telling stories and tends to have constructed text put together aesthetically.
Broadly, the aim is to make films that are socially and politically relevant, but art is not supposed to bring about change, that is misuse of art.
Documentary filmmakers are usually asked about changes that they have been able to bring about, but that is not their intention. A confusion exists as to what a documentary is – whether it is news or enacted cinema.. . One would like to state this form of art as a visual representation of one’s thoughts, which in itself tends to involve a lot of research,a lot of vigour, a pre-condition almost prevalent in all, that one has to get into the depth of his subject.
These artists,they work for passion. Documentaries allow one to be a complete filmmaker , instead of being able to cover only one aspect – script or direction, which is difficult in other forms of cinema. It entails the portrayal of reality that is subjective to one’s perception.
The new generation of filmmakers have access to newer technologies.. their understanding of the form is different.
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Auditi Dey