In 1969, Akbar Padamsee, one of the pioneers of Modern Indian painting, made a visionary 16mm film called Events in a Cloud Chamber. This was one of the only Indian experimental films ever made. The print is now lost and no copies exist. Over 40 years later, filmmaker Ashim Ahluwalia worked with Padamsee, now 89 years old, to remake the film.
Direction
Ahluwalia's patient observation of Padamsee's hands reconstructing memory.
Cinematography
16mm grain becoming meditation on materiality and loss.
Director
Ashim Ahluwalia
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The original 1969 film was reportedly destroyed in a warehouse flood — a banal end for an experimental masterpiece.
Padamsee was among the first Indian artists to break from colonial academic traditions; this film represents a parallel rupture in Indian cinema history that barely anyone saw.
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