The precise movement of the shuttle on the loom, the unspoken messages of a
handwoven pattern, the careful lead of a caring master... With Katha, Tilfi explores the multiple possibilities of classical artistry and reveals a surprising collection, playing with
contemporary patterns that translate into physical experiences.
A story. A narration. A fiction.
The Vedic Sanskrit word Katha took many forms throughout the centuries, to transform, later on, into one of the most famous Indian classical dance forms: Kathak. Following a Kathak dance guru and his shishyas on their journey to mastery, Tilfi traces these tales of the past through the precise movements of the present.
Filmed as a documentary, the Katha campaign follows real dancers—Shreya, Vishal, Tania, and Ratnpriya, and their guru, Pandit Ravi Shankar Mishra, for a day in their regular practice. Through the art of the movement, stories are being told without words: hand movements, footwork, body flow and facial expressions became the favoured storytellers of unwritten stories.
Tilfi’s Katha campaign is a kathakar’s tale, unbound by time, recollecting the story of a guru—teacher—and his shishyas—disciples—bound together by the underlying thread of transmission.
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