Ninth International Conference on The Image

Abstract

The transition from a recorded history to tracing the subtleties of fragmented memory, the culture becomes a modality of fragmented experiences, movements, stories. When in village Turibasa, people decide to record the funeral of a child in the hamlet because funeral is a “celebration” for them, the remembering takes a new turn. The film becomes of paramount importance, the audio-visual medium, “the ground where sight and sound meets and interlocks, an association of sense occur which in turn creates movement” [Bandhipadhaya, S. (2001). What this paper is trying to ask and imagine is, if the film that got made in Turibasa becomes a medium to understand its relationship with creativity; whereby, Ho in the very process of making the film, becomes an Image of “Ho.” In other words, an act of creation, is both being and becoming Ho – which argues for Development as creativity, a creative suture, one that is composed of three knots each having its own disclosure and its pitfalls. The first one is the Being where “identity” is the pitfall, second is Doing (the act of creation) — a stagnant being is its pitfall, and finally the Creating/Creation (where one is verb and the other is noun) were artifact is the pitfall – one in which archiving is an anthropological result of giving Ho a museum and not a life. The writing of Ho is writing what I am seeing (not the film itself but making of the film, yet it can’t be just a film).