Mani Kaul Movies

FTII Diploma film by Mani Kaul

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

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....

The precautions to be taken during and after an air-raid by the people, are shown in this film.

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...

A documentary on the role of women in India.

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

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