Tales from the Planet Kolkata

A personal film about a city that may only exist in a film or on TV a film about various dreams about Calcutta It starts with a variation on the first image of Francis Ford Coppolas Apocalypse Now and takes the spectator along through a strange file full of ideas and images of the city Some images come from the North Hollywood films and European television The commentators are a local traditional painter and an AfroAmerican videoartist from New York Echo Park Film Center LA FilmForum