Director: Vipin Vijay; Writer: Tuhinabha Majumdar, Vipin Vijay; Producer: Rajiv Mehrotra; Cinematographer: Vipin Vijay; Editor: Debkamal Ganguly; Cast: Chitra Sen, Kanai, Ashok Viswanathan, Ritu, Kunal, Munmun, Debjit, Kaushik, Chaitiparna, Rumki, Nilendu
Duration: 00:59:03; Aspect Ratio: 1.221:1; Hue: 35.883; Saturation: 0.070; Lightness: 0.247; Volume: 0.395; Cuts per Minute: 33.541
Summary: 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. Crossing histories, regions, and ages, the radio, in Vijay's view, has "the power to turn the psyche and society into a single echo chamber." Like an errant transmission, this keenly configured work criss-crosses stories like a flick of the dial: here a female singer prevented from singing live at the station, there a lonely housewife who alleviates her husband's absence with the sound of AM; a DJ calling out, a child prodigy from the forties who impersonated the female voice. "Radio here is a liberal instrument, it might be your extended organ, it can move with you, it is transparent as a dream, an oral dream."
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