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The Last Parsis: Tales of Survival and Extinction: IV: Taking stock

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The Last Parsis: Tales of Survival and Extinction. C) Kaevan Umrigar, 2005. Tuesday, July 1, 2008. I also began thinking about the form of the film. I reflected that my interests tended more towards documentary and realism, and since the footage wasn’t enough to shoot a documentary, I thought of making a quasi-documentary, a documentary that’s made like it were a fiction film. I also thought of putting together a cinematic essay, but I was unable to define exactly what it would be. X: Devlali and Igatpuri.

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The Last Parsis: Tales of Survival and Extinction: III: Satara

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The Last Parsis: Tales of Survival and Extinction. C) Kaevan Umrigar, 2005. Tuesday, July 1, 2008. Parsi mansion in ruins, Tarapore. What a beautiful mansion. Very sad that there is no one to use it.or renovet it. June 2, 2013 at 12:03 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). X: Devlali and Igatpuri. XV: Dahanu and Bordi. View my complete profile.

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John Cage's 4' 33'': July 2008

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John Cage's 4' 33'. C) Kaevan Umrigar, 2004. Wednesday, July 2, 2008. 8220;I have nothing to say / and I am saying it /. And that is / poetry / as I need it.”. John Cage, “Lecture on Nothing”. Music and I have met a few times, but we remain strangers at best. And though we have even worked together, we remain indifferent to each other, not comfortable with each other, not understanding one another, not communicating. The chemistry is just not there. Now, we are being forced to work on a film together.

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The Last Parsis: Tales of Survival and Extinction: X: Devlali & Igatpuri

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The Last Parsis: Tales of Survival and Extinction. C) Kaevan Umrigar, 2005. Tuesday, July 1, 2008. X: Devlali and Igatpuri. Her husband was managing to pull the agiary along, she told me, though the dharamsala next door was being kept shut. She didn’t face any problem being a Parsi here. There was a water problem in Igatpuri, and she allowed them the use of water from the agiary well. People had respect for them and left them alone. Parsi house of recent vintage, Tarapore. X: Devlali and Igatpuri.

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The Last Parsis: Tales of Survival and Extinction: VII: Solapur

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The Last Parsis: Tales of Survival and Extinction. C) Kaevan Umrigar, 2005. Tuesday, July 1, 2008. My next stop was Solapur. Solapur surprised me. I was expecting to see crowds, chaos, congestion, confusion after my experiences with Nagar and Kalyan; instead, I found wide roads, little traffic, planned houses and little noise. The thought struck me, this was how Pune must have been when it used to be called the pensioners’ paradise, though not climate-wise. Solapur was hot and sultry. Wowwhat a sad pictu...

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John Cage's 4' 33'': The image-track

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John Cage's 4' 33'. C) Kaevan Umrigar, 2004. Wednesday, July 2, 2008. Consider this piece of Dada junk-poetry:. Toothache boys related to 9. Jeanine, the friend of Jeanine and earns frequent flier miles with philosopher toward blithe spirit. Furthermore, cashier toward apartment building beams with. Joy, and skyscraper related to bur debutante from hand. If toward dust bunny teach insurance agent from cloud formation, then defined by impresario gets. Boldface canberra centrex byr. I would like viewers to...

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John Cage's 4' 33'': The images

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John Cage's 4' 33'. C) Kaevan Umrigar, 2004. Wednesday, July 2, 2008. What I have therefore decided to do is shoot a lot of images. Some planned, some unplanned. In a variety of settings, in studio and on location. Using all the constructions of film grammar possible – camera movements, camera speeds, camera effects – sometimes conforming to them, sometimes distorting them, sometimes reinventing them. Here are a few examples, just an indicative list:. 8226; Swish pans to nothing in particular. 8226; Extr...

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The Last Parsis: Tales of Survival and Extinction: II: Nairobi

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The Last Parsis: Tales of Survival and Extinction. C) Kaevan Umrigar, 2005. Tuesday, July 1, 2008. Deserted mansion decaying in Adajan village. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). X: Devlali and Igatpuri. XV: Dahanu and Bordi. View my complete profile.

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The Last Parsis: Tales of Survival and Extinction: XIII: Tarapore (cont'd)

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The Last Parsis: Tales of Survival and Extinction. C) Kaevan Umrigar, 2005. Tuesday, July 1, 2008. I asked him when Parsis would have come to Tarapore. He told me it was hard to say, but definitely, Parsis had been in Tarapore for at least five hundred years. The agiary had been established in 1820, and the dokhmas were even older. Dhunmai Tarapore's house, Tarapor. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). X: Devlali and Igatpuri. XV: Dahanu and Bordi. View my complete profile.

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The Last Parsis: Tales of Survival and Extinction: XV: Dahanu & Bordi

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The Last Parsis: Tales of Survival and Extinction. C) Kaevan Umrigar, 2005. Tuesday, July 1, 2008. XV: Dahanu and Bordi. I asked him about community facilities. Did they have a dokhma? Pervez Dastur too spoke to me about Bordi, but he didn’t have anything to add to what Dasturji Sena told me. He too wasn’t from Bordi but had spent close to 25 years there. He didn’t know much about Bordi’s early history, and said I could meet some of the older residents. They would tell...Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).