For the majority of the western audience, a film from India is usually related with Bollywood themes, musicals, romantic comedies and silly action films. Fortunately there still exist a different way of filmmaking that will appeal to more eclectic tastes. I.D. is the debut film by the Indian director Kamal K.M. and participated in the official competition of the 30th Torino Film Festival.

From a purely cinematic point of view and without taking into consideration the religious interpretation, Su Re is a film to watch. The innovative and alternative approach of the Gospels is another good reason to note that film. Columbu has remained faithful to the words of the book and this is another expression of his artistic formalism. He doesn’t try to impose his opinion and he is not dogmatic in his beliefs. Everyone is free to receive different messages or to just enjoy a detailed experimental work of art.

Thanks to the Viennale I own one metre of a Peter Kubelka film (it is pinned on my corkboard now). One metre of white frames, cut out personally from the experimental short Arnulf Rainer. What can I say, I attended a lecture by Kubelka and he told me to do it! And you can’t sit with Kubelka, watching and listening to Arnulf Rainer and not do what he tells you afterwards, so …