Underplayed Gems

The Seventh Walk (2013)

The Seventh Walk poster
Original title
सातवीं सैर
Directed by
Amit Dutta
Genre
drama
Country
India
Runtime
1h 12m
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

The film follows a painter as he walks through the Indian landscape. It blends images of nature and art to create a visual meditation on the creative process.

meditativecontemplativevisually poeticatmosphericslowabstractnon-narrativeexperimental

What happens

Amit Dutta is an Indian experimental filmmaker and writer who was born in 1977 in Jammu. He is considered to be one of the most significant contemporary practitioners of experimental cinema, known for his distinctive style of film-making rooted in field research and personal symbolism, resulting in images that are visually rich and acoustically stimulating. His works mostly deal with subjects of art history, ethno-anthropology, and cultural inheritance through cinema. In 2007, the film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum included his short film Kramasha in his personal list of the one thousand essential films of all time. In 2024, Richard Brody, writing for the Newyorker named his first feature film Nainsukh (2010) among the best biographical films ever made.[1] (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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