To attempt the simplest possible synopsis of Amit Dutta’s new film The Unknown Craftsman, let’s call it a rumination on first principles for spirit-attuned architecture. Fair enough, also, to say it enlarges the scope of Dutta’s work, if we allow the even more simplifying synopses of his previous features, 2010’s Nainsukh and 2013’s The Seventh Walk, as experimental biopics of Indian painters—famed practitioners, respectively, of 18th-century figuration and contemporary abstraction. Of course this all is grossly reductive, but it gets us closer to the big picture of Dutta’s specialty, the art of creative deliberation. Having surveyed the alluring series of Dutta films on view at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley last month, let’s also go ahead and describe the lot of them as dreamlike—not in the red-flag sense of willful inscrutability, but rather for their affinity with the concentrated ambiance of subconscious thought.
- 10/4/2017
- MUBI
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