Kochi, Dec 24: The ongoing Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) has got an official signature film which is winning massive appreciation from the social media for its simplicity, artistic quality and unique presentation style.
‘To appreciate a genuine poetry, song or a painting, we need not be a poet, musician or painter, but a child’, says the 86-second movie by renowned filmmaker Aashiq Abu.
A sonorous narration (in Malayalam, with English subtitles) by playback singer Shahbaz Aman adds to the beauty of the work which largely relies on animation techniques. Within two days from its release, no less than 5,200 people have watched on YouTube the signature film which has been produced jointly by Kochi-based Papaya media and Studio Dreamcatcher of Thiruvananthapuram.
Director Aashiq said one aim of the work was to deconstruct the notion that events like the KMB were exclusively for the elite. “Anyone with a curious mind can find art in anything around—as we could in our childhood,” he added.
Today, the world of cinema graced KMB’14 when renowned filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan visited the main venues of the 108-day contemporary art festival at suburban Fort Kochi and hailed the 100 exhibits put up by 94 artists from 30 countries.
The other notable visitors included senior diplomat Anil Wadhwa, his wife Deepa Wadhwa who is Indian ambassador to Japan, film personalities Prakash Bare, Vinay Forrt and Niyas Backer besides social activist ‘Civic’ Chandran.
By evening, renowned Sri Lankan poet Rudhramoorthy Cheran delivered a lecture at the ‘History Now’ series of KMB’14.
Some 12 km away from the main Aspinwall House venue, a teenaged artiste called Arnold Dalson enthralled an assorted crowd with a saxophone recital that aired out 14 popular songs from films in Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil and English, converting a patients’ corner into a locale of festivity on the eve of Christmas.
The 90-minute show at the General Hospital in downtown Ernakulam today organised as part of a weekly Art & Medicine programme under the ongoing Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) in the city. Held at the same venue every Wednesday, this was the 44th edition of the series being organised by the Kochi Biennale Foundation in association with Mehboob Memorial Orchestra of suburban Fort Kochi.
KMB’14 will facilitate India’s only traditional maritime theatre turn a new chapter a day after Christmas when a village in Ernakulam district will stage a Hindu-mythology story for the first time in its five-century-old history of Chavittunatakam — a Christian art form from Kerala.
The KMB’14 Chavittunatakam festival will have all its five plays backed by lyrics in Malayalam instead of the customary Tamil mixed with the state’s language.
To be held in Gothuruthu near Paravur 22 km north of this city, the December 26-30 ‘Chuvati’ festival will stage ‘Sabarimala Sree Dharma Shastavu’ on the opening evening, portraying the life of Lord Ayyappa who the Puranas refer as the child of pivotal Hindu gods Shiva and Vishnu.
The fete being organised in association with Gothuruthu Sports and Arts Club will be inaugurated by veteran Mohiniyattam danseuse Kalamandalam Sathyabhama and Chhau exponent Gopal Prasad Dubey, according to Kochi Biennale Foundation secretary Riyas Komu, who is the director of programmes of KMB’14.
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