Project Detail

Unravelling

Synopsis

Unravelling is the result of a unique film-making process.

Internationally acclaimed Nitin Sawhney composed a new score in response to an original inter-generational poetic dialogue in Urdu between Sawarn Singh, a WWII Indian soldier who fought for the British in Burma, the Middle East and Africa and his grandson, Kuldip Powar. Working with this haunting score Powar directed an evocative and searching film.
 

Details

Year
2010
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
17 mins
Director
Kuldip Powar
Producer
Nirmal Puwar, Sanjay Sharma
Co-Producer
Nirmal Puwar, Sanjay Sharma
Editor
Dominica Favata
Screenwriter
Kuldip Powar
Director of Photography
Des Seal
Production Designer
Technical paper artist Antoinette Brown
Sound
Nitin Sawhney
Composer
Nitin Sawhney
Principal cast
Poets - Sawarn Singh and Kuldip Powar

Production Status

Production Company

Noise of the Past, Methods Lab, Goldsmiths.

UK

www.gold.ac.uk/methods-lab/noise-past

Principal funder - Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Methods Lab

N.Puwar@gold.ac.uk

Sales Company

Kuldip Powar

kuldipart@yahoo.co.uk

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