Digital Revolution in Filmmaking in India and the Democratic Challenge
Révolution digitale dans le cinéma indien et le défi démocratique
Résumé
TFO (Talking Films online) are weekly discussions on films that also lead to international seminars, festivals and visual contests. A multidirectional activity is a nourishment for a new approach to cinema. These multidirectional layers are, in my view, very inspiring and
rhizomatic: offering a horizontal lecture of filmmaking more interesting than a vertical top- down analysis. In such TFO meets the concept created by the French philosopher Deleuze (1980) of a Rhizome organizational pattern. A rhizome is a plant with multiple roots growin
in different ways (like orchids, potatoes, lotus) in apparent chaotic order. (Le Houérou, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024) My keynote today is not limited to formal politeness but is directly inspired by the films I have screened for the TFO festival during June 2024. A Smartphone film contest involving student’s short films. Today, digital technology touches every aspect of Indian society
and furthermore Indian filmmaking. Digital cameras, as small as lipstick items, associated with AI boundless possibilities constitute a democratic revolution. The mass arrival of Smartphones on the market since 2010 is without exaggeration comparable to a revolution. We
all know that when affordable smartphones and cellular data became ubiquitous in the 2010s in India, internet access largely expanded. This event was a big bang for all communications and
visual arts and of course in all sectors of economy and society. It was a rhizomatic change signaling discontinuities in all directions of human activity. From 2023, music, color grading, voices, animated visuals, pictures, any sound, can be created for free with the merging, reducing
dramatically the cost of filmmaking. It is possible, more than ever before, to create a film with a very low budget. This opportunity did not exist in the previous years. The last TFO festival
(June 2024) is demonstrating how clear young women are voicing their aspirations. The winners of the festival demonstrated incredible desire for change within the society. I will insist
on the short film directed by the winner of the silver award, Haffeefa Jebi. The gender approach of the subject illustrates, more than any other film, the desire for freedom, and self-respect of a new generation. I will speak about discontinuities in the commercial cinema, in student’s films with new subjects of films and new ways to treat societal challenges and finally I will analyze the technical revolution that could made this discontinuity happen since 2010, this date could be a turning point for the Indian society.
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