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amlan datta
 Born 1971, Kolkata
 painter, photographer, cinematographer, film maker

 ‘Diploma in Films’ (Motion Picture Photography)
Film & Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, 1996

launched the company and made his first independent documentary right after the film school
worked as a freelance cinematographer for a wide range of projects both in India & abroad
 been making films as independent director/ producer for more than a decade
 
independent documentaries, television projects, industrial/ corporate videos, TV commercials, music videos...
 founder member of Bom-Bom Charitable Trust

Filmography
                        



‘BOM" / aka 'One Day Ahead of Democracy’, 117 min, HDV/ HDCam, 2011

Supported by Sundance DFP, Jan Vrijman Fund (IDFA)
Co-produced with NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp)

Malana, a remote village in the Himalayas isolated for thousands of years, has been fostering a unique model of democracy of consensus. They have also been producing some of the best quality hashish. A real life story of transition; an ancient civilization being invaded and obliterated by the modern democracy. Narrated in an epic structure, a visual essay from the edge of the world with a universal message of trust, peace and eternal unity.


an ancient democracy in transition; through the eyes of two imaging devices - one old and one new.         
 

 

‘Cock-a-doodle Do'
a 3 min short
 bored with simple village stuff the young cock starts off on his journey to the city
in search of better food

a musical tale of what his fate awaits there...      

 
  ‘Song of the Mountains’, 2005
a 23 min documentary, DVCam
‘Before you study Zen,
mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers;

When you study Zen,
mountains are no longer mountains and rivers are no longer rivers;

But once one has enlightenment,
the mountains are once again mountains and rivers again rivers.’
NO DIALOGUES, NO VOICEOVER, NO EXTERNAL MUSIC
IMAGES WOVEN TOGETHER IN A SYMPHONY OF SOUND AND SILENCE		    
 
 


 

‘Everything Remains : a film on Chitpur Road’, 1998, BetaCam
A 53 mins video documentary film on the life around Calcutta’s oldest road,
 Chitpur Road – a living museum, a journey through time
Who says time flies, it flies nowhere...
It gathers on your face, on your limbs,
I’ve seen it gathering on me walking down
This city street three hundred years old...

 

    
 
‘Life and Learning’, 2004, 36 min
 A video documentary on different pedagogical practices applied by Vikramshila School in a remote village.
'SAIL-RMD’ industrial video on Raw Material Division of India's largest steel maker, the Steel Authorities of India Ltd

‘3793 - let darkness be history' a product launch video for Eveready Torch

‘Circle of Magic' a corporate video for Airtel (Bihar & Jharkhand circle)

'Balmerol - keeping the nation in motion’ a corporate video for the country's oldest lubricant brand

‘Anmol Marie - golden ball’  TVC

‘Ford Shoes’ TVC
 

    
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