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Madhusudhanan, is an Indian film maker and artist, born 1956 in Allapuzha, a coastal district in Kerala. Started drawing at a very young age. Studied Painting at Fine Arts College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, and Print Making at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Vadodara, Gujarat. His artistic practice flows seamlessly across various mediums in art and cinema, including video art and narrative feature film.His work confronts India’s film history, her colonial period and contemporary war politics. He is deeply concerned with war, colonization, and man-made borders.Marxism and Buddhism have been decisive influences on Madhusudhanan’s art. He has made several paintings based on Indian cinema. For example, a series of paintings and drawings titled "Archeology of Cinema". Some of the paintings and drawings from this series have been exhibited at several places in India and abroad. Madhusudhanan continues to work on this theme, and adding to the series. "Self Portrait”, scripted and directed by Madhusudhanan tells the story of a street photographer through news of global wars. The protagonist sees his own image in the pictures of the dead he is called to take for police records. The film was shown at over a dozen international film festivals and received the best film award from Greece. Was selected by the Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA) as part of a selection of Outstanding Short Films from International Festivals. In 2006, scripted and directed a silent film “History is a Silent Film”. The life story of a cinema projector repairer. Of him discovering his father, who disappeared during the India Pakistan partition, in a newsreel that comes to him in a projector for repair. This film was also shown at the MoMA, New York, in addition to several other film festivals. "Bioscope”, a narrativa feature film, directed in 2008 is also based on visual images. “Shambharik Kharolika”, or the Magic Lantern, is a film constructed around the 19th century magic lantern slides, a forerunner of modern cinema. The magic lantern slides, originating in Europe, were historically developed in India by Mahadeorao Patwardhan (who named it Shambharik Kharolika) and his sons during the British era. The father and sons performed the magic lantern slide shows all across the country in India. These historical figures and their lives provide the broad storyline for this film, while their lives are seen in the film through the eyes of two robbers. "The Logic of Disappearance - A Marx Archive”, is an installation of 90 charcoal drawings, currently on show at the Kochi Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India. His new series titled Penal Colony, based on the Wagon Tragedy, an incident that took place in Kerala in 1921 under the British rule. This work has as its backdrop, Kafka’s celebrated story “In the Penal Colony”. Filmography: :• 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「K. M. Madhusudhanan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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