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{{Short description|Indian documentary film director (1932–1975)}}<br />
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'''Pramod Pati''' (15 January 1932 – 20 January 1975) was an Indian documentary film director and animator.<br />
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==Biography== <br />
Pati was born on 15 January 1932.<ref name="PIB">{{Cite web |title=Films Division pays tribute to well known film maker Pramod Pati |url=https://pib.gov.in/pib.gov.in/Pressreleaseshare.aspx?PRID=1690373 |access-date=2023-10-23 |website=pib.gov.in}}</ref> He graduated from [[Utkal University]] and studied cinematography in [[Bangalore]]. He worked for the [[Government of Orissa]] (now [[Odisha]]) from 1952 to 1956. He received a government scholarship to study puppet animation under [[Jiří Trnka]] in [[Prague]], [[Czechoslovakia]]. When he return to India, he joined the Film Division of [[Government of India]] in [[Bombay]] (now Mumbai) as the Head of Animation.<ref name="scroll">{{Cite web |last=Gaekwad |first=Manish |date=2015-12-16 |title=The wondrous world of animator Pramod Pati |url=https://scroll.in/reel/800621/the-wondrous-world-of-animator-pramod-pati |access-date=2023-10-23 |website=Scroll.in |language=en-US}}</ref><br />
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He died from cancer on 20 January 1975.<ref name="PIB"/><ref name="scroll"/><ref>{{Cite web |title=Pramod Pati |url=https://thisonly.com/products/to-30 |access-date=2023-10-23 |website=ThisOnly |language=en}}</ref><br />
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==Works==<br />
At Film Division, Pati produced and directed several experimental films.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Pramod Pati's Film Experiments: Negotiating Film Form within Governmental Frameworks |url=https://www.asapconnect.in/post/632/singlestories/pramod-pati-s-film-experiments |access-date=2023-10-23 |website=www.asapconnect.in}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sharma |first=Kamayani |date=2015-10-01 |title=Archeology of an experiment: The science-fiction cinema of Pramod Pati |url=https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/safm.6.2.147_1 |journal=Studies in South Asian Film & Media |language=en |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=147–164 |doi=10.1386/safm.6.2.147_1 |issn=1756-4921|url-access=subscription }}</ref> He directed the two films on [[family planning]] for mass education; ''Claxplosion'' (1968) and ''Six Five Four Three Two'' (1968). ''Claxplosion'' employs the [[pixilation]] technique and electronic music to depict an artist's struggle in creating a sculpture. The film ends in the artist crafting a sculpture representing a couple with two children instead of five as in a reference image. In ''Six Five Four Three Two,'' Pati adopts a minimalist approach, utilizing a construction site as the setting for mime artists portraying a couple deliberating family planning. The husband proposes six children, but after negotiation, they settle on having two, culminating in a seemingly content couple.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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''Explorer'' (1968), a short film, uses [[avant-garde]] audiovisual techniques to explore the conflicting duality of urban India in the 1960s, caught between tradition and modernity, war and celebration, and science and religion.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Explorer |url=https://theseventhart.info/tag/explorer/ |access-date=2023-10-23 |website=The Seventh Art |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Madness and Mandates: Pramod Pati's Film Experiments |url=https://asapconnect.in/post/631/singlestories/madness-and-mandates |access-date=2023-10-23 |website=asapconnect.in}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Citation |last=Mohapatra |first=Silika |title=The un/paralleled universe of Pramod Pati |date=2021-08-25 |work=Deleuze, Guattari and India |pages=144–157 |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003217336/chapters/10.4324/9781003217336-10 |access-date=2023-10-23 |edition=1 |place=London |publisher=Routledge India |language=en |doi=10.4324/9781003217336-10 |isbn=978-1-003-21733-6|url-access=subscription }}</ref> ''Trip'' (1970) explores movement and time through time-lapse photography in the city of Mumbai.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /> ''Abid'' (1972) explores the inner world of the painter [[Abid Surti]] who had desire to "live within a painting". In this film using [[pixilation]] technique, Surti emerges from the ground, transforms a white room with painted images on walls, ceiling, and floor, akin to creating a live painting.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /><br />
==Filmography==<br />
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=== Short films ===<br />
* ''Perspectives'' (1966)<br />
* ''Claxplosion'' (1968)<br />
* ''Explorer'' (1968)<br />
* ''Six Five Four Three Two'' (1968)<br />
* ''Trip'' (1970)<br />
* ''Abid'' (1972)<br />
* '' 90 Films'' ; Detailed published in the Book , "Pramod Pati; The Adventist Mastercrafter, Edited by Golaka Bihari Singh<br />
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== References ==<br />
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==External links==<br />
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[[Category:1932 births]]<br />
[[Category:1975 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Indian documentary filmmakers]]<br />
[[Category:Indian animated film directors]]<br />
[[Category:Utkal University alumni]]<br />
[[Category:Indian experimental filmmakers]]</div>TreyHarbison