We are very pleased to be screening the film O Horizon, 2018 by The Otolith Group as part of a weekend of programming to celebrate the last weekend of the Anna Boghiguian exhibiton.
O Horizon is based on the poetry and experimental teaching techniques of the Indian poet and teacher Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941). The film will be screened at 18.00 on Saturday evening and introduced by Anne Barlow, Director, Tate St Ives and Anjalika Sagar, member of The Otolith Group. O Horizon was filmed over five years in the Indian state of West Bengal.
‘Flitting between music, dance, poetry and literature, O Horizon, offers a fragmented yet engrossing view of a Tagorean ethos, one that situates modernism, cosmopolitanism and ecopolitical awareness as products of experimental modes of learning.’
Tausif Noor, Frieze magazine
Anna Boghiguian's A Play to Play 2013 is inspired by Dak Ghar (The Post Office), written in 1912 by Tagore. In the work, Anna Boghiguian has recreated the characters and settings of Tagore’s play through paintings and cut-out figures inspired by props used in forms of folk theatre.
O Horizon is being screened as part of The Last Weekend, a programme of talks, play readings and songs connected to the themes in Tate St Ives's Anna Boghiguian exhibition.
The Otolith Group. O Horizon, film still (2018). Courtesy and copyright the artists.