| As a child in India, Gemini Award-winning filmmaker Cyrus Sundar Singh ( Film Club ) was mesmerized by the hand-painted posters and hoardings he saw all around, advertising everything from the latest movies to the gods themselves. In their beauty and intensity, they seemed to encapsulate India's abiding spirituality.
As India evolves into a 21st-century economic powerhouse, many traditions and practices are beginning to fade away. Increasingly, the handmade works that Cyrus once loved are disappearing, replaced by mechanically produced posters and signs.
But does computer-created imagery have a soul? In this documentary, Cyrus looks at a vanishing art form – and the spiritual values that are vanishing with it. |
