Week-long Artist’s Cinema package
on the game starts tomorrow
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| A scene from Mexican artist Miguel Calderon's film 'Mexico vs Brazil', which will be shown in KMB '14's ‘Hard Tackle: The untold story of football’ film package |
Kochi, Feb 13: The Kochi Muziris Biennale 2014
is set to score with ‘Hard Tackle: The untold story of football’, a week-long
package, on ‘the beautiful game’ as part of its Artist’s Cinema programme. The
film screenings at the Aspinwall pavilion begin tomorrow at 7 pm.
The February 14-20 package, with films from
India, the UK, Germany, Switzerland and Mexico, is curated by film
critic-journalist Faizal Khan, and features short films, documentaries and
features, that portray the politics, economics and socio-cultural background in
the game.
“The idea is to link society with sports to
create an understanding of different cultures and as a unifying factor for people
to celebrate and come together,” says Faizal, whose father Mohammed Usman
played for Kerala.
Faizal and biennale director of programmes Riyas
Komu have put together football film packages for the International Film
Festival of India in Goa and the International Film Festival in Kerala, which
proved so popular that Komu has been roped in as a consultant on this
particular package in several cities, including in Indore and Pune.
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| Marmots playing football in animated short film 'FC Murmeli' by Swiss directors Jochen Ehmann and Dustin Rees that will be shown in KMB '14's ‘Hard Tackle: The untold story of football’ film package |
The KMB ’14 package has poignancy, humour,
surrealism and some of the films feature big names on the field. “There are a
couple of ‘anti-football’ films,” said Faizal. Germany’s ‘The Whole Stadium’ is
a 90-minute film that only looks at the spectators and ‘Stoppage Time’ is a
short on the national anthems that come at the start of the match.
Indian film ‘The Vigil’ by the Raqs Media
Collective, a Delhi trio who are also exhibiting at KMB 14’s Kashi Art Gallery,
features a match between two Chinese football clubs, from the point of view of
the goalkeepers. Originally telecast on two screens, the 92-minute film is
premiering here in a new avatar, and is being shown in a split screen. A film
put together by the Berlin Film Festival to commemorate the 2006 World Cup
hosted by Germany shows a short clip of India’s failed attempt to play in 1950.
The package will be advertised among the
different clubs in the city and also at Fort Kochi’s Parade Ground, which is a
popular local venue for the game. Malayali footballer I M Vijayan will be
felicitated on February 20, the closing day.
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| German documentary filmmaker Lena Siebertz's 'Stoppage Time', which will be shown in KMB '14's ‘Hard Tackle: The untold story of football’ film package |
Komu noted that the film package was already set
to travel to other parts of India as a KMB outreach, starting with Malappuram. “Football
represents the best movements of civilians on earth,” said Komu. “There are
more than 600 football films in the world; it shows the depth of interest that
people have towards converting the stories around football into motion pictures.”
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