Film Still, Such a Morning
Film Still, Such a Morning
Exhibition Still, Such a Morning
Film Still, Such a Morning
Such a Morning (2017)
Film: digital video, 4K, colour, sound, 85 min
Based originally on research into the diversity of existing narrative structures in the Indian subcontinent, Such a Morning reaches beyond place to expose the complexity of a fractious moment in history in which every truth seems to have an opposite brutal truth. As part of his film Kanwar conceived a narrative that continues beyond the film—the professor continues to write his letters—towards a research project with diverse artistic, pedagogic, metaphysical and political collaborations. These become the rubric for a continuing project, which are at the core of the series of Letters that accompany the film. The seven Letters presented here contain texts, hand made paper and 17 film projections. The handmade paper for the Letters was made by Sherna Dastur at the Nirupama Academy of Paper, Kolkata, India. The train coach built for the film remains in Delhi, a memorial for the teacher who refused to conform, who stepped off the tracks and wandered into the wild.