Mani Kaul Movies

To the city come men, women, fruits, flowers, vegetables, goats and sheep – all ready for consumption. It is the process of...

A Monkey’s Raincoat is a personal documentary about young artists working at the ‘Rijksakademie’; an institute which offers...

Chitrakathi is about the folk artists of western India who narrate with the help of leather puppets. Mani takes us to the sleepy Konkan coastal...

In this short, rather satirical film we meet various ill-assorted characters who are seeking their own individual ‘Gods’. The characters...

A personal video diary film using an audio recording of filmmaker Mani Kaul giving a Dhrupad lesson to poet Udayan Vajpeyi.

Mani Kaul's last film documents his days in Holland and his engagement in India with that form of cinema which for him was the Big Other i.e....

A documentary story told through images, poetry and the Dhrupad, a vocal genre in Hindustani classical music, said to be the oldest still in use in...

Ramesh is a poorly paid employee in the city Power House. His only child has high temperature, but he mistakes it for common fever. At the Power...

A 'filmscape' on the Kashmir valley.

Documentary short about the nomadic puppeteers of Rajasthan.