Vipin Vijay

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Vipin Vijay is a Mollywood/Malayalam cinematographer, film director, and screenwriter. He is the first Indian to attain the prestigious Tiger Award at the Rotterdam IFF for his Malayalam documentary film “Video Game,” and one of the two filmmakers in Focus at the 10th edition of the International Documentary & Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK). He was born in 1977, Kannur, Kerala, India, and grew up in Calicut. Vipin is the son of E.Vijayan Nair (Professor of mechanical engineering at the “National Institute of Technology, Calicut), and Vasanthi Vijayan. He grew up reading his Grandfather’s diaries, which made him understand his great Grandfather’s performances and the experience of the oracle. His Grandfather was an oracle practitioner in Kannur district; later, he became a teacher. Vipin was influenced by most of his nostalgic work during his visit. He was a student of the Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute, Kolkata, India. He explores all traditional genres, documentary, fiction, essay, and experimental film. Eight of his films screened at the Fite. His films have been widely shown in film festivals including Mumbai International short & Animation film festival (MIFF), Rotterdam (IFRR), Milan (MIFF), New York, Karachi, Paris, Beverly Chicago Arts Center, Beijing, Hyderabad IFF, Oberhausen, and IFF of Goa, India.

Most Popular Vipin Vijay Trailers

Total trailers found: 12

Egotic World Trailer (2000)

01 January 2000

Art film about a woman dying and three princes taking a journey. Vipin's diploma film at Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata (2003), looks at the ideas of entrapment and liberation.

The Image Threads Trailer (2010)

27 October 2010

A computer teacher, his black-magician grandfather, and a female cyber-creature promote a series of pre-destined rendezvous, both online and offline, over the shreds of mnemonic time and space, at the cleavages of various parlors of subculture.

Video Game Trailer (2006)

01 January 2006

A complex video journey on a motorcar, that incorporates mythic themes of searching, the need for being, for love, for a home and for a promise of a different future.

A Perfumed Garden Trailer (2008)

01 January 2008

Experimental short about India's problematic transition to modernity.

The Tetrahedron Trailer (2018)

12 December 2018

Maya the protagonist, on her way to the college, hears a radio news of a strange geometrical figure with the shape of a ‘tetrahedron’ that appears from nowhere besides the Nazca lines in Peru.

Palace of the Winds Trailer (2003)

01 January 2003

Vipin Vijay's Palace of the Winds is a poetic essay about that "Holy Little Box," the radio, conceived of as a ghostly transmitter of Indian cultural artifacts.

Vishaparvam Trailer (2012)

01 January 2012

A video essay that looks into the contemporary simulation of the old relationship between sign and referent.

Anthropocene Relooked Trailer (2018)

10 May 2018

A video essay on the Ghoramara low–lying islands, disappearing quickly, due to erosion and sea level rise – in the process, also documenting the disappearance of its grassroots imaginaries.

Bhoomiyil Chuvadurachu Trailer (2014)

20 November 2014

The creative self of the Master Adoor Gopalakrishnan gets explored through self-reflections, memories and conceptual interventions.

Adoor: A Journey in Frames Trailer (2015)

16 October 2015

Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s films map the history of the region from the inside. This Documentary looks at how the filmmaker dealt with human conditions at the most elemental level with a sensibility that makes his films universal in appeal.

A Flowering Tree Trailer (2007)

01 January 2007

A closer look at a taboo subject in India: menstruation and how it is embedded in Hindu rituals and beliefs, dating back to ancient times.

The Razor's Edge Trailer (2001)

01 January 2001

Kshurasyadhara (The Razor's Edge), based on the temple oracles of Kerala. The film premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR),2002 and was shown in film festivals at Tehran, Milan, International Film Festival of Kerala, MIFF.