Arrival
Mani Kaul, 1980, IN, HD, 20'
A vigorous portrait of Bombay and its markets, where vegetables, animals, and migrant workers converge, and where capitalism seeks to transform all into commodities. To film historian B.D. Garga, Arrival seemed “remarkable for its searing imagery (the abattoir sequence strangely reminiscent of Georges Franju’s Le sang des bêtes) and contrapuntal sound track.”
New digital reconstruction by cinematographer Avijit Mukul Kishore and sound recordist Madhu Apsara, overseen by Ashish Rajadhyaksha.
