26.10.2023 | Frankfurt am Main
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Ray’s World Cinema: On the Genealogy of PATHER PANCHALI – Vinzenz Hediger (Frankfurt)
Satyajit Ray’s first film not only made its director famous, it was also the first film from India to be successful with audiences in India and which critics and cinephiles in Europe and the USA were able to classify in their own categories. Where does this dual resonance come from? Ray himself thinks about art in terms of pedigree and origin. A genealogy of his own art leads back to the complex modernity of Bengal.
Vinzenz Hediger is Professor of Film Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt
Film: PATHER PANCHALI (Song of the Road), India 1955, 120 min.
