Kwaidan first published by Little White Lies, as entry 102 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column Kwaidan opens with ink: first black ink swirling in clear liquid (on a white background), and then vortices of different colours, eddying and mixing into rich chromatic layers. This credit sequence (intercut with cast and crew names typewritten on quality…
Tag: ghost stories
Ghost of the Golden Groves (Shonajhurir Bhoot) (2019)
Ghost of the Golden Groves (Shonajhurir Bhoot) first published by Sight & Sound Aniket Dutta and Roshni Sen’s Ghost of the Golden Groves (Shonajhurir Bhoot) is a hard film to pin down: internationalist in its influences, experimental in its forms, and despite its very particular sense of place (the Sonajhuri forest in Bopur, West Bengal),…