Cheran inaugurates seminar at IFFK
Noted Tamil director-actor Cheran inaugurated a seminar on ‘Digital technology: a new trend in cinematic aesthetics’, organized as part of the ongoing International Film Festival of Kerala in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday.
Addressing the audience, Cheran, a member of the NETPAC jury at the 14th IFFK, said that the film community in India must strive to upgrade the technical quality of theatres in order to bring out the real aesthetics of technologically-advanced films. The impact of the ever-growing digital technology in our lives needs to be closely studied, he added.
Film editor Ajith Kumar, who gave the keynote address at the seminar, said digital technology was distancing time and space from reality. Directors in earlier days used to give more freedom to editors while new directors hesitated to do so. “For the same reason, we work with a lot of limitations today,” he said.
Kerala State Chalachitra Academy chairman K.R. Mohanan, HBO co-executive producer Kameela Fox, festival artistic director Bina Paul Venugopal, Academy vice-chairman V.K. Joseph and actor Padmapriya also participated in the seminar.
