KITA, 1999
16mm Direct Animation - hand edited, drawn and printed.
Sima’s first screen dance film ‘Kita’ developed her skills in deconstructing movement to its simplest form and ways of visually interpreting dance. It uses hand-drawn animation, film editing (slicing) and hand-printed 16mm animation.
Sima grew up as an amateur Bharata Natyam dancer, but was only interested in the technical side of the craft rather than the expressive dance. The film explores a sensorial form of communicating through, sound and movement. The vibrant and energetic movement depicts how the fabric and bells of the Bharata Natyam costume move to music. The film uniquely choreographs these visuals to music, and is an intricate technical view of the dance form, replicated through the blend of hand drawn direct animation and how it dances to music.
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Produced, directed and edited by Sima Gonsai
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16mm direct animation moving image screened at Lux Cinema
