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      • On the one hand, Kapadia’s film seems to be a good way of conveying a collective, social experience, on the other, however, it is an extremely difficult, demanding and hermetic film. It takes a certain amount of sensitivity and patience – in a word, an effort to accept an Indian director's story.
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  2. Oct 4, 2021 · A dreamlike documentary that magnifies the personal until it reveals a lucid political collage, Payal Kapadia’s feature debut “A Night of Knowing Nothing” is composed of archival footage,...

  3. Apr 4, 2022 · A palimpsest of dusky imagery, reflective narration and evocative score creates an achingly melancholic portrait of modern student protest. By Jessica Kiang. Courtesy of CPH:DOX.

  4. Jul 16, 2021 · Payal Kapadia’s A Night Of Knowing Nothing is precisely such an oneiric, sensory and imaginative journey documenting being young in contemporary India. It is a portrait of fearful night visions, a postcard from the frontline in the battle for freedom, "a fleeting memory of violence".

  5. Feb 28, 2022 · Coming 75 years after India’s independence, Payal Kapadia’s A Night of Knowing Nothing, winner of the Golden Eye Award for Best Documentary at Cannes, dwells in that darkness before dawn, refusing the blinding light of false freedoms.

  6. Feb 9, 2022 · A Night of Knowing Nothing, the debut of Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia and winner of the Oeil d'or for Best Documentary at last year’s Cannes, cannily fuses two forms of knowing, or two ways of absorbing an important moment in one’s life: experiencing and its near-opposite, remembering.

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  7. Feb 22, 2022 · In A Night of Knowing Nothing, Payal Kapadia combines footage of such students organizing and dancing, home videos and archival footage through the fictional storyline of an FTTI student. “Inside a cupboard in room S18 of a hostel in the Film & Television Institute of India,” the opening titles explain, “a box was found with several ...

  8. Sep 10, 2021 · Payal Kapadia’s extraordinary debut feature A Night of Knowing Nothing is a hypnotic essay about the loss of innocence and the spark that inspires one to fight. The film, which won the l’Œil d’Or at Cannes this year, is an invigorating epistolary fever dream that culminates with some of the most damning images of police brutality one ...

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