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ous collaboration flickering lights which won the top prize for cinematography at the international documentary film festival amsterdam idfa in 2023 was about electrification or the lack of it in a village in manipur anirban datta one of nocturnes two directors nocturnes unlike fl approaches science not through pragmatics or politics but as a source of wonder we follow mansi mungee an indian entomologist in her 30s as she traverses the forests of the eastern himalayas in search of the hawk moth she is accompanied by gendan bicki marphew a young man from the local bugun community who works part time as her photographer assistant sometimes other collaborators appear too but the point of view remains very much mansi s as she and bicki scout out locations we learn about the practicalities she must keep in mind the specific elevation or height above sea level the presence of old growth trees the existence of a forest clearing to enable light from the moth screen to travel some distance but also some natural limits to that clearing so that the moths that show up can be assumed to have come from a single elevation anupama srinivasan one of nocturnes two directors sukanta majumdar s impeccable location sound brings the forest to life overlaid by nainita desai s almost eerie musical compositions complementing our sense of visual discovery but the work of science is not glamorous and yael bitton s editing stays close to the precision and slowness and often repetitive labour of the process recording measuring comparing evaluating we get a real sense of the long hours spent waiting with little control over the outcome of their labours night upon night the researcher and her assistant are awake into the wee hours their headlamps and hoods abuzz with winged visitors hoping that their little island of light will attract at least some of the specific creatures that they are here to study but there are no guarantees of anything and in these moments scientific work begins to echo the practice of faith at one point when mansi sketches out the route along which she intends to map the population of hawk moths and explains to her assistants that they need to take two hundred photographs at each point on it one of them stops her how long will this take he asks mansi s reply is immediate however long four months five months two years whatever it takes we ll do it that commitment to a timeline without end feels like deep romance especially in a world that thinks it needs everything faster and wants nothing forever several recent indian documentaries have gained worldwide attention by training their lenses on the subcontinent s infinitely various natural world and the relationships we have with some particular aspect of it kartiki gonsalves the elephant whisperers 2022 won an academy award for its portrait of the man animal bond through one couple and an elephant in mudumalai rahul jain s invisible demons 2022 mapped the apocalyptic state of delhi s polluted air while shaunak sen s all that breathes 2022 achieved a brilliant mix of the poetic and political with its mordant portrait of two delhi based brothers who run a hospital for injured kites nocturnes is a quieter smaller film than both the latter the filmmakers having chosen a milieu with less scope for ecological handwringing or socio political critique but neither does it resort to crowd pleasing appeals of the orphaned baby elephant variety it just nudges us to slow down and look at gossamer spider webs trembling in the weak morning light a caterpillar looping itself along the strength of a slender branch the mist unfurling over a dark forested valley and most often at its mysterious world of whirring creatures that sometimes live only a few days but whose ancestors have been on the planet since before the dinosaurs like its researcher protagonist it hides a deep existential investment in its subject under an implacable workaday front the film s least successful moments for me are those when its almost meditative focus on time and labour and the eternal show of nature is punctured by overt moments of tell mansi verbalising her enchantment with the species she studies or asking existential questions to which science may not have any answers why are moths so variegated in colour and pattern why do they thrive in these remote forests it would also have been interesting to see a little more of the indigenous bugun and shertukpen communities who are thanked in the credits as the guardians of this forest but that would have been a different film and for now this one is quite enough first published in moneycontrol on 27 jan 2024 posted by trisha gupta at 19 12 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels anirban datta anupama srinivasan documentary film festivals films nature writing non fiction northeast science sundance older posts home subscribe to posts atom home about me blog archive 2008 50 august 2008 26 september 2008 8 october 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