“In the
age of modern technology and the digital domain, you don’t need the faculty of
memory anymore, in any field, contrary to the oral tradition that memory is
everything,” opined Academy Award winner Resul Pookutty, in the ‘Open Forum’
session at the 23rd IFFK. “Now one can listen to over 2000 tracks of
audio at the same time. Technology has employed us with the ability to be as
precise as one millionth of a second”, said he.
“Sound
can never be real in Cinema, it is all about cheating, and how good you are at
it determines how good a technician you are. Digital medium has democratized
the filmmaking process, but has killed the quality of recording in the process.
Cinema hall standards are so pathetic. Sense of rhythm is in everyday life.
What one sees in a film, is in sync with their breath. Nowadays, productions
become that fantastic that they come out unreal. Technology should be a tool,
and never should one let it overrule themselves,” said Resul.
He also narrated
the tale of how he wanted to be a physicist and dreamt of winning a Nobel Prize
for his discoveries in superconductivity, but instead won the Oscar after
becoming a sound-engineer. Filmmakers K
P Kumaran, and Sanju Surendran participated in the session.
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