Vimukthi Jayasundara

moet zelf nog aan deze regisseur beginnen, maar hij staat hoog op de wensenlijst

En de volgende intrigerende beschrijving van een recente korte film gemaakt in het kader van het "Jeonju International Film Festival’s Digital Project" leek me ook wel interessant om even hier te delen:

Light in the Yellow Breathing Space (2012)

This is one strange semi-feature (not even 40 minutes long) film. At first, you would think it's about a young boy who comes home to spend time with his dying father. They go off into the woods. Then from there, it turns into something that I can best describe as The Tree of Life if it was directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

(...) Vimukthi Jayasundara’s 40-minute Light in the Yellow Breathing Space is in many respects the finest work the Sri Lankan auteur has yet produced. Unmoored from the strictures of both linear storytelling and the need to stretch his primarily imagist vision out to feature-length, Jayasundara has achieved an unexpected freedom. The fact that Jayasundara plans to expand the piece is both promising and regrettable; it’s fine as it is, but one hopes that his newfound freedom and tactility will survive the transition. Above all, his contribution to the series finds him no longer wrestling with the question of whether or not his cinematic pictures have a right to be beautiful, whether his camera is permanently in danger of becoming a participant in auto-colonialism or an inadvertent exoticism of poverty. Yellow Breathing Space is a succulent play of light and texture, its close attention to skin, surface, the movement of water or wind in the trees coalescing to provoke unapologetic awe.

At the same time, much like certain aspects of Jayasundara’s last feature Mushrooms (2011), this filmmaker often expresses his artistic personality in a manner that’s unnervingly similar to Apichatpong. Here we find Jayasundara employing surrealism and loosely knotted, image-driven story movement to weave a tribute to his father Reginold, a doctor and mystic who attempted to develop a theory that reconciled Darwinian evolution and Buddhism’s doctrine of reincarnation through a concept of karma as aspirational energy(...)