Mani Kaul Movies

A documentary on the role of women in India.

FTII Diploma film by Mani Kaul

Documentary short about the nomadic puppeteers of Rajasthan.

Mani Kaul's last film documents his days in Holland and his engagement in India with that form of cinema which for him was the Big Other i.e....

Mani Kaul's diploma film shot at Ajanta Caves

A short film that sets up an opposition between functional forms of industrial age and decorative ones from Indian tradition.

A Monkey’s Raincoat is a personal documentary about young artists working at the ‘Rijksakademie’; an institute which offers...

This documentary is a three-part tribute to director Guru Dutt, who died in 1964 at the age of 39. The work traces Guru Dutt's personal story through...

Chitrakathi is about the folk artists of western India who narrate with the help of leather puppets. Mani takes us to the sleepy Konkan coastal...