The Inner Eye
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Original title | The Inner Eye |
Country of production | India |
original language | English , Bengali |
Publishing year | 1972 |
length | 21 minutes |
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Director | Satyajit Ray |
script | Satyajit Ray |
production | Films Division |
music | Satyajit Ray |
camera | Soumendu Roy |
cut | Dulal Dutta |
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The Inner Eye is a short documentary by Satyajit Ray from 1972 about the blind Bengali painter Binode Behari Mukherjee (1904–1980).
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The film shows Mukherjee at work at his place of work on the university campus in Shantiniketan and gives an outline of his biography: his childhood in a Brahmin family and his first drawings, training with the painter Nandalal Bose in Shantiniketan, early sketches and drawings of animals and landscapes, study trip to Japan in 1937, his extensive frescoes and other wall paintings in Hindi-Bhavan and his teaching activities in Shantiniketan, director of the Nepalese National Museum in Kathmandu from 1949, his own school in Masuri and his complete blindness in 1957. Finally, Mukherjee can be seen sculpting wax figures and painting and a number of his works to the music of a morning ragas , played by Nikhil Banerjee on the sitar . The film ends with the faded in words:
- Blindness is
- a new feeling,
- a new experience,
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a new state of being.
- Binode Behari Mukherjee
background
Satyajit Ray studied art with Mukherjee in Shantiniketan from 1940 to 1942.
literature
- Andrew Robinson: Satyajit Ray - The Inner Eye , Revised Edition 2004, pp. 49–54, 280–282
Web links
- The Inner Eye in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Photos etc.