Re:PLAY

re:PLAY 2012
Internesenal Film Kumhei

Tribute

 

CLOSING EVENT

MK Binodini

Sun. June 13 at 5:00 PM

TRIBUTE TO M.K. BINODINI DEVI
Performance by YOSHIKO CHUMA

A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
Talk by film director Aribam Syam Sharma on his collaborations with writer M.K. Binodini Devi.

Followed by: SANGAI: THE DANCING DEER OF MANIPUR
Aribam Syam Sharma. India, 1988, 40 min.
Based on M.K. Binodini Devi’s experimental ballet, Thoibi, developed from her powerful and seminal essay Thoibidu Warouhou’i that ignited environmental awareness in Manipur, Sangai, blends Manipuri folklore, ballads and environmental concern in a ballet performed by the JN Manipur Dance Academy’s Ballet Unit. The film was awarded the British Film Institute’s Outstanding Film of the Year Award in 1989.