Forms and Designs

Name: Forms and Designs
Director: Mani Kaul
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1968-01-01
Duration: 11 min
Rating: 5.3
Cast: Berkeley Hill

196811m

★ 5.3

Documentary

A short film that sets up an opposition between functional forms of industrial age and decorative ones from Indian tradition.

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Cast

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Berkeley Hill

Narrator (voice)

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