Dutch videoart, Indian interpretation of haiku on bamboo, Brazilian mixed-media movie inspiret by William's Blake Tyger, tyger burning bright [Who does not know Tyger]>, very 90's 3D render of crimson umbrellas and roses flying through space with recitation of E. E. Cummings in the background. Seventeen poetry films in total. That's how organizers of Sadho Poetry Film Festival call them.
The festival took place in Rock Garden's amphitheatre. Played from DVD, projected on portable screen. Quality immesurably better than in Multan's cinema. After some chaos in the beginning caused by a sudden storm came the author of the Rock Garden, Nek Chand himself, and said few words.
There were about forty people in the audience, I was the only foreigner. But Indians spoke to each other in English, on occasion switching to Punjabi or Hindi seamlessly. And even the chief organizer introduced the movies in English – and most of the movies were in English, without subtitles.
Nek Chand, author of the Rock Garden, said few words in the beginning.
After the storm, everything had to be installed again.
One of the movies was inspired by Blake's Tyger.For those who never heard of Tyger, tyger burning bright by William Blake
Tiger
Tiger! Tiger! burning bright
In the forest of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?
And What shoulder, and what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? and what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
Tiger! Tiger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
