Unravelling
Synopsis
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
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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
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Noise of the Past, Methods Lab, Goldsmiths.
UKPrincipal funder - Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Methods LabN.Puwar@gold.ac.uk
Sales Company
Kuldip Powar
kuldipart@yahoo.co.uk
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