Sunday 17 September 2006, 18.00

Amitabh Chakraborty, India 1989, subs, 120 min

'In the extended opening shot of Kaal Abhirati, little boys enter and exit the frame at periodic intervals, emptying buckets of water in a garden, with long gaps between appearances. Watching, you begin to anticipate them, constructing ‘time’ yourself. With no characterisation, no dramatic confrontation, no resolution, I was guided more by the gross physicality of the medium, the texture of skin, the white of bed sheets – how would they combine in my frames, become a picture, move? As an audience, if you indiscriminately engage with the sheer physicality of these arbitrary movements and repetitions, my images begin to unravel their logic. The first shot sets up this chakkar (cycle) and, in that sense, maybe constitutes the film itself.'
– Amitabh Chakraborty

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£4, booking recommended