Vipin Vijay
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Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter |
Vipin Vijay (born 1977) is an Indian film director and screenwriter. He received his post-graduate degree in filmmaking from the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute SRFTI, Calcutta. He received the Charles Wallace Arts Award for research at the British Film Institute, London, 2003.[1] Vipin is the recipient of "The Sanskriti Award" (2007) for social & cultural achievement.[2] His works are made under independent codes and defy any categorisation eluding all traditional genre definitions and merge experimental film, documentary, essay, fiction all into one.[3]
Early life
Vipin Vijay was born in Kannur and grew up in Calicut (Kozhikode) Kerala.[
Career in film
His diploma film at
The film premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR),[7] 2002 and was shown in film festivals at Tehran, Milan, International Film Festival of Kerala, MIFF. Kshurasyadhara won the best Malayalam film commendation award 2001, Indian Documentary Producer's Association (IDPA), Best Director Award of the Kerala State Film & TV Awards 2001, and the National Jury award of the Mumbai International short and Animation film festival (MIFF) in 2002. Kshurasyadhara is now a part of permanent archives at the United States Library of Congress.[citation needed]
Hawamahal
Video Game (2006),[11][12] produced by Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT), premiered at the Tiger awards competition for short films.[13] Video Game is the first Indian film to win a short Tiger Award", 2007.[14]
The citation of the jury says that “Video Game is yet another illustration that there’s more to the cinema of India than can be contained with the received wisdom which seeks to encompass it by reference to a dualism opposing Satyajit Ray to Bollywood. Video Game shows a relentless, complex post-modern intelligence as it processes everything within its view, within its memory, within its wide range of cultural references. Its title is an index to this complexity, as it evokes not only digital game space as an aspect of the real, but the pursuit of video within the understanding of a game, replete with strategies, movements, and countermovements. A new kind of road, indeed.”[15]
The film also won the best film, Golden Pearl Award,
The documentary Poomaram (A Flowering Tree, 2007) based on the feminist author Judy Grahn's work Blood Bread and Roses premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2008.[17] Poomaram was part of the Indian panorama 2007
In 2009, he made a seven-minute silent film titled A Perfumed Garden which was part of the Indian-Highway[18] project premiered at Serpentine Galleries, London. Indian Highway showcased a snapshot of a vibrant generation of contemporary artists working across a range of media in India. The exhibition has since become hugely successful and travelled all over the world.
In 2010, Vipin scripted and directed the fiction feature film
He made a documentary Vishaparvam or Venomous Folds 2012 for PSBT, New Delhi. The film had its world premiere in the international competition section at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen international film festival 2013 and since has been shown in the Indian panorama at
In 2012, Vipin traveled throughout south India making a four-hour long documentary film, tracing the advent of Jaina heritage in south India, supported by a project initiated by the Bharatvarshiya Digambar Jain Tirthkshetra Committee, Mumbai.
In 2014 he completed a documentary film, Feet Upon the Ground, on the creative world of Shri Adoor Gopalakrishnan, for the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi as part of their "Great Masters" series.[citation needed]
61st International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2015, Germany honoured him with a profile, showcasing his body of works.[24]
International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK) 2016 showed his works in the "Filmmaker in Focus" section. [25]
His fiction feature film titled Prathibhasam (Malayalam) was completed in 2018.[26]
Vipin is developing a fiction film[as of?] set in Kerala tracing the roots of the ethnic and cultural memory of a community set in Cochin, Kerala. The film titled Chavunilam (A Voice from Elsewhere) won the Incredible India award [27] for the Most Promising Project of the Co-production market, 2012 at the Film bazaar, International Film Festival of India, Goa, 2012.[28]
Filmography
Name of film | Year | Length |
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The Egotic World | 2000 | 32 mins |
The Razor's Edge | 2001 | 30 mins |
Palace of the Winds | 2004 | 60 mins |
Video Game | 2006 | 30 mins |
A Flowering Tree | 2007 | 60 mins |
Broken Glass, Torn Film | 2007 | 1 min |
A Perfumed Garden | 2007 | 7 mins |
The Image Threads | 2010 | 104 mins |
Venomous Folds | 2012 | 30 mins |
Feet Upon the Ground | 2014 | 175 mins |
Prathibhasam | 2018 | 150 mins |
Tumbling Dice | 2018 | 57 mins |
A Voice from Elsewhere | Pre-production |
References
- ^ Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarships British Council India
- ^ "Sanskriti Awards announced". The Hindu. 19 October 2007.
- ^ Profileskurzfilmtage.de Archived 8 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Egotic World".
- ^ "THEIR EXPERIMENTS WITH TRUTH | the Big Indian Picture".
- ^ 61st International Short Film Festivalfilmindiaworldwide.com March 2015 Archived 7 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Homepagina | IFFR".
- ^ YouTube, a Google company. YouTube. Archived from the original on 17 March 2016.
- ^ "Homepagina | IFFR".
- ^ "Home". beverlyartcenter.org.
- ^ Video Game. YouTube. Archived from the original on 9 December 2021.
- ^ "Homepagina | IFFR".
- ^ Tiger Awards for short films iffr.com
- ^ "Homepagina | IFFR".
- ^ "Homepagina | IFFR".
- ^ "Home / 2015 / ZAGREBDOX International documentary film festival". zagrebdox.net. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- ^ "Homepagina | IFFR".
- ^ "Indian Highway".
- ^ "Homepagina | IFFR".
- ^ "Vladivostok International Film Festival".
- ^ "SAIFF 2010: THE IMAGE THREADS (CHITRA SUTRAM) Review: | Twitch". twitchfilm.com. Archived from the original on 5 March 2014.
- ^ York University Events [dead link]
- ^ Festival Signes de Nuit [dead link]
- ^ "Profiles - Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen". www.kurzfilmtage.de. Archived from the original on 23 March 2018.
- ^ "Vipin Vijay". 13Th Idsffk.
- ^ "To Goa". The Hindu. 11 November 2016.
- ^ "Vipin Vijay's project wins incredible India development award". dearcinema.com. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
- ^ "Market Info | www.filmbazaarindia.com". filmbazaarindia.com. Archived from the original on 10 October 2011.
External links
- Vipin Vijay at IMDb
- Aesthetic struggle alone mattersfrontline.in Archived 24 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine