Antipodes captured by cinema
View(s):Monthly documentary film screening at the Digital Film Academy of Sri Lanka Foundation Institute will screen Victor Kossakovsky’s ‘VIVAN LAS ANTIPODAS!’ – Long Live The Antipodes! at 4 pm on March 12 at the SLF Digital Film Academy Studio.
The film will be followed by a talk on the topic ‘drawing poetry from the visual’ with the introduction talk by Malind Senveviratne and the discussion is moderated by filmmaker Sudath Mahadivulwewa What would be the shortest route between Entre Ríos in Argentina and the Chinese metropolis Shanghai? Simply a straight line through the center of the earth, since the two places are antipodes: they are located diametrically opposite to each other on the earth’s surface.
During his visits to four such antipodal pairs, the award-winning documentary filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky captured images that turn our view of the world upside down. A beautiful, peaceful sunset in Entre Ríos is contrasted with the bustling streets in rainy Shanghai. People who live in a wasteland are connected to people dwelling next to a volcano. Landscapes whose splendor touches the soul are juxtaposed with the clamor of a vast city. These antipodes seem mythically connected, somehow united by their oppositeness.
Kossakovsky’s movie is a feast for the senses, a fascinating kaleidoscope of our planet. Monthly documentary film screening at the Digital Film Academy of Sri Lanka Foundation Institute will screen Victor Kossakovsky’s ‘VIVAN LAS ANTIPODAS!’ – Long Live The Antipodes! at 4 pm on March 12 at the SLF Digital Film Academy Studio.
The film will be followed by a talk on the topic ‘drawing poetry from the visual’ with the introduction talk by Malind Senveviratne and the discussion is moderated by filmmaker Sudath Mahadivulwewa. What would be the shortest route between Entre Ríos in Argentina and the Chinese metropolis Shanghai? Simply a straight line through the center of the earth, since the two places are antipodes: they are located diametrically opposite to each other on the earth’s surface.
During his visits to four such antipodal pairs, the award-winning documentary filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky captured images that turn our view of the world upside down. A beautiful, peaceful sunset in Entre Ríos is contrasted with the bustling streets in rainy Shanghai. People who live in a wasteland are connected to people dwelling next to a volcano. Landscapes whose splendor touches the soul are juxtaposed with the clamor of a vast city. These antipodes seem mythically connected, somehow united by their oppositeness.
Kossakovsky’s movie is a feast for the senses, a fascinating kaleidoscope of our planet.