Learning on ScreenCelluloid Man
- Synopsis
- CELLULOID MAN is a tribute to film archivist and obsessive cinephile P.K. Nair, a man whose childhood fascination with cinema finally led to the creation of the National Film Archive of India. In a country where film preservation was once regarded as irrelevant, Nair’s has been a long, hard fight to preserve precious fragments of India’s film heritage that would otherwise be lost forever.
Comparable to France’s late, great ‘man of cinema’, the noted film archivist Henri Langlois, Nair has also influenced generations of Indian filmmakers by introducing them to new worlds through the prism of cinema.
The film features clips and interviews with many Indian and international filmmakers. Extras include an interview with the director and an accompanying booklet with an essay by Mark Cousins and extracts from the director’s own production diaries. - Language
- English
- Country
- India
- Year of release
- 2012
- Subjects
- Film studies
- Keywords
- archive films; film archives; India; cinema - India
Credits
- Director
- Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
- Cinematographer
- Santosh Sundiyil
- Music
- Ram Sampath
- Contributor
- P.K. Nair
Distribution Formats
- Type
- DVD
- Format
- Region 0 PAL
- Price
- £12.99
- Availability
- Sale
- Duration/Size
- 164 minutes
- Year
- 2014
Distributor
- Name
Second Run DVD
- info@secondrundvd.com
- Web
- http://www.secondrundvd.com/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 8324 2400
- Address
- 12 Chessing Court
Fortis Green Road
London
N10 - Notes
- A niche-market video label and distributor, specialising in being the first to release important and award-winning films from around the world. Sale via online shop or retail outlets.
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