Field-Trip, 2013, 23 minutes
Synopsis:
Professor B.N. Goswamy travels back along the path of some forty years’ research on the 18th century Indian master-painter Nainsukh. Field-Trip follows the scholar in the lower western Himalayas as he tracks down contemporary vestiges of Nainsukh’s lineage.
On the Film:
“…re-opens ancient registers and revisits former conversations.”
– Cinema du Reel
“…he tracks down contemporary vestiges of Nainsukh’s lineage”
– Max Goldberg, BAMPFA
“Field-Trip is an intricately structured study of tradition, inheritance, and historiography – ideas that lie at the heart of Dutta’s worldview.”
– The Seventh Art