Pramod Pati
Pramod Pati (15 January 1932 – 20 January 1975) was an Indian documentary film director and animator.
Biography[edit]
Pati was born on 15 January 1932.[1] He graduated from Utkal University and studied cinematography in Bangalore. He worked for the Government of Orissa (now Odisha) from 1952 to 1956. He received a government scholarship to study puppet animation under Jiří Trnka in Prague, Czechoslovakia. When he return to India, he joined the Film Division of Government of India in Bombay (now Mumbai) as the Head of Animation.[2]
He died from cancer on 20 January 1975.[1][2][3]
Works[edit]
At Film Division, Pati produced and directed several experimental films.[4][5][6] He directed the two films on family planning for mass education; Claxplosion (1968) and Six Five Four Three Two (1968). Claxplasion employs the pixilation technique and electronic music to depict an artist's struggle in creating a sculpture. The film ends in the artist crafting a sculpture representing a couple with two children instead of five as in a reference image. In Six Five Four Three Two, Pati adopts a minimalist approach, utilizing a construction site as the setting for mime artists portraying a couple deliberating family planning. The husband proposes six children, but after negotiation, they settle on having two, culminating in a seemingly content couple.[4]
Explorer (1968), a short film, uses avant-garde audiovisual techniques to explore the conflicting duality of urban India in the 1960s, caught between tradition and modernity, war and celebration, and science and religion.[7][8][5][9] Trip (1970) explores movement and time through time-lapse photography in the city of Mumbai.[4][9] Abid (1972) explores the inner world of the painter Abid Surti who had desire to "live within a painting". In this film using pixilation technique, Surti emerges from the ground, transforms a white room with painted images on walls, ceiling, and floor, akin to creating a live painting.[4][9]
Filmography[edit]
Short films[edit]
- Perspectives (1966)
- Claxplosion (1968)
- Explorer (1968)
- Six Five Four Three Two (1968)
- Trip (1970)
- Abid (1972)
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Films Division pays tribute to well known film maker Pramod Pati". pib.gov.in. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
- ^ a b Gaekwad, Manish (16 December 2015). "The wondrous world of animator Pramod Pati". Scroll.in. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
- ^ "Pramod Pati". ThisOnly. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
- ^ a b c d "Pramod Pati's Film Experiments: Negotiating Film Form within Governmental Frameworks". www.asapconnect.in. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
- ^ a b filmsdivisionindia. "sarkari shorts". Tumblr. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
- ^ Sharma, Kamayani (1 October 2015). "Archeology of an experiment: The science-fiction cinema of Pramod Pati". Studies in South Asian Film & Media. 6 (2): 147–164. doi:10.1386/safm.6.2.147_1. ISSN 1756-4921.
- ^ "Explorer". The Seventh Art. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
- ^ "Madness and Mandates: Pramod Pati's Film Experiments". asapconnect.in. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
- ^ a b c Mohapatra, Silika (25 August 2021), "The un/paralleled universe of Pramod Pati", Deleuze, Guattari and India (1 ed.), London: Routledge India, pp. 144–157, doi:10.4324/9781003217336-10, ISBN 978-1-003-21733-6, retrieved 23 October 2023
External links[edit]
- Pramod Pati at IMDb
