French Filmmaker, Aurelia Mengin’s independent film that was part of the Kolkata International Film Festival, among many others, is slated to be shown on the Day 1 of the 23rd Edition of Independent Days International Film Fest at Karlsruhe, Germany as part of European Festivals Association. The film itself is a self-reflecting narrative journey where the female protagonist on a quest to discover her past, heals it, by knowing the truth- a film that introduces magic, and, proportion to the effect of creating a suspended sense of enigma only to be resolved through knowing, and, awareness. Today, dreams, unconsciousness, and, the subliminal mind and its interfaces, require a new aesthetic understanding, a post-Newtonian sense of perception, a quantum way of knowing, because we understand that causality itself with space-time are connected like interconnected network of points which apparently don’t show up in our everyday life, but, hides behind the contours of reality exactly where it should be or is right now. So, characters like the healer, the protagonist (Rosy), her memories, and, the overlapping of the past, present and the possibilities of the future (an extension into the memories of future watchers of the cinema) are not independent points, detached from each other, rather different modes of perception apparently, working independently, but, tied, deeply with, or, interlocked with one awareness projecting several subjects into the narrative aesthetics of life and cinema, to the point, where distinction is simultaneously maintained and transcended.
As a self-taught Reunionese Filmmaker, Aurelia Mengin’s work blends the traditional folk identity of the island and the contemporary art scene of Paris, a la Paul Gauguin, and, is deeply influenced by surrealist art and its overlapping with Jungian Archetypes of the Unconscious – a collective unconscious, thus, resonates with her work, embracing both the roots of culture, the birth of cinema, its history, and, that of modern art, and, fashion, creating a new palimpsest which is both “enfolding, and, unfolding” to use Physicist David Bohm’s words, in a world where the evolution of becoming is a a continuous process of creativity, as symbols, images, and, meanings undergo a test of beauty, chaos, the dread, serenity and fidelity.
ABOUT Independent Days International Film Fest: IDIF is an IMDb Award-listing film fest is run by non-profit film board Karlsruhe e.V. According to the IDIF Festival Team “The diversity of genres is also important to us, something that many major film producers and TV stations shy away from, especially in Germany and Europe. We are committed to a cinema that can overcome the limits of reality with courage and self-confidence and reflect on the strengths of storytelling. The INDEPENDENT DAYS show a film programme that reflects the entire spectrum of independent cinema.” –
Joy Roy Choudhury, Strategic Communications, PR, Media Outreach,
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French Filmmaker Aurelia Mengin and her team for Scarlet Blue
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