MESSAGE OF THE FOREST (2018)
Otolith Group Channel 4 Random Acts Frieze Film
Artist collective the Otolith Group’s Message of the Forest can be heard as an ode to the Sal Forests of West Bengal, or a song for the weathering of parent rocks, or an incantation inspired by Rabindranath Tagore’s vision of a world campus that would become Visva-Bharati in Santineketan in West Bengal in 1921.
Screened at Frieze Film 2018
Broadcast on Channel 4 as part of the Channel 4 Random Acts
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DIRECTOR : THE OTOLITH GROUP
RANDOM ACTS /CHANNEL 4
PRODUCER : HANNAH LILEY/THE OTOLITH GROUP
PRODUCTION COMPANY : THE OTOLITH GROUP
CINEMATOGRAPHY: KATE MCDONOUGH
EDITOR: DONYA MAGUIRE