"Sita's free: Landmark copyleft animated film is now licensed CC0", "Having a wonderful time, wish you could hear", "Nina Paley's Epic Breakups: Good Women Done Wrong in India". Tragedy, comedy and musical collide in this gloriously animated film from Nina Paley. Next to her is a whimsical peacock fueled record player, the bird’s beak scratching out the most beautiful music from this to which Sita gently gyrates. [11], During this period of this time, Paley also contributed several comic strips for the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, of which she is a member and occasional spokesperson. The modern, more personal element to the contemporary part of the story is narrated using the rough, energetic Squigglevision technique of traditional animation. Nina (la réalisatrice elle-même) dresse un parallèle entre sa vie et celle de Sita quand son propre mari, installé en Inde, met fin à leur mariage par e … Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Author Nina Paley Posted on May 22, 2008 May 22, 2008 Categories Animation, art, Ego, festivals, film, Publicity Bitch, Ramayana, Sita Sings the Blues 8 Comments on Press for Success “a tiny slice of the world” Apparently an American distributor rejected Sita Sings the Blues because, culturally, … The site's consensus reads: "A tour de force for filmmaker Nina Paley, Sita Sings the Blues gives the Ramayana its animated due with a visually vibrant, dazzlingly imaginative triumph". [13], In 2012, Paley posted an animation to Vimeo titled This Land Is Mine depicting the Middle East conflicts over history; it was named a Staff Pick. [16] The film was released for free download starting in early March, 2009 "at all resolutions, including broadcast-quality, HD and film-quality image sequences", at the time licensed under "CC-BY-SA". She was the artist and often the writer of the comic strips Nina's Adventures and Fluff, but most of her recent work has been in animation. Thus she is wed to Rama, with whom she falls in love at first sight. The film captures the darker side of Sita’s life and portrays her crying for her fate. Distressed and disappointed by Rama's actions during her reunion with Rama, Sita prays to the earth goddess, Bhumi-Devi, to swallow her as final proof of her purity and devotion, and the prayer is duly answered, despite the pleas of Rama and Lakshman. In April 2009, the Hindu Janajagruti Samiti started a petition calling for a complete ban on the movie and initiation of legal action against all those who have been involved in its production and marketing, believing its portrayal of the Ramayana to be offensive, with some members going so far as to call it "a derogatory act against the entire Hindu community. [29], The film has drawn controversy from a number of sides. Paley released her first feature, Sita Sings the Blues, for free to the public in March 2009 under a Creative Commons Share-Alike license, dedicating it to the public domain 5 years later. Eventually, a fee of $50,000 was negotiated. The film is a compact expression of the conflict between the increasing human population and the ecosystem in which it must live. In 1991, she illustrated The Santa Cruz Haggadah[9] and moved to San Francisco. [23], Paley has qualified this distribution strategy as a financial success, citing that it earned $132,000 from March 2009 to March 2010. "[30], When the San Jose Museum of Art screened the film, a protestor said: "I'm very angry about this film and feel very humiliated by the portrayal of Lord Ram in this very perverted way...negative portrayals of Hinduism cause discrimination and religious intolerance. [32], Because of obstacles in clearing the rights to Hanshaw's recordings for the Sita Sings the Blues, Paley took active part in the free culture movement. I'm an artist, animator and Free Culture activist. 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Indianapolis International Film Festival, July 2009, This page was last edited on 5 February 2021, at 11:04. Sita est une belle déesse indienne mais qui vit de nombreux tourments avec son mari, le dieu Rama. In June of 2002 I moved to Trivandrum, Kerala, India, to be with my (American) husband who'd taken a … An animated version of the epic Indian tale of Ramayana set to the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw. Sita est l'épouse du dieu Rama, qui l'abandonna, comme le raconte le Ramayana. Ms. Paley did everything in “Sita” — an amazingly eclectic, 82-minute tour de force — by herself. Nina (the filmmaker Nina Paley herself) is an artist who discovers parallels to her own life in Sita's story when her husband - in India on a work assignment - decides to end their marriage via email. "Sita Sings the Blues" is an animated feature (72 minutes) based on Sita's adventures in the ancient Indian epic the Ramayana. Nina is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. In the company of ascetics owned by the Sage Valmiki, she gives birth to her twin sons, Lava and Kusha and raises them to love and praise their absent father. [3] They provide context and commentary for the story, which has innumerable incarnations and regional variations. Paley recreates the role of Sita and displays her in pain through her crying. Amazon.fr - Achetez Sita Sings The Blues (Omu) (Ne à petit prix. [42] The website for Sita Sings the Blues includes a wiki where its fans contributed translated subtitles for the DVD of the film. It's amazing that she persuades the audience to care about the fate of a 2,000 mythical character, Sita… [34] "Minute Memes"[35] is a series of short ("one-minute") video "memes" made by Paley about copyright restrictions and artistic freedom. [4] Her family was Jewish. [18][19] Exclusive right to distribute 35mm and HDCam prints of the film is split between GKIDS[20] for all theaters East of the Mississippi River, and Shadow Distribution[21] for all theaters west of the Mississippi River. Reena Shah contributed the voice of the Sita character, in addition to choreographing and performing the dance sequences rotoscoped by Paley for the animation. [24] The film also holds a score of 94 on the review aggregator website Metacritic based on 11 reviews, indicating "Universal acclaim". [2], She has published much of her work, including Nina’s Adventures, Fluff, and all original work in Sita Sings The Blues, under a copyleft licence. Retrouvez infos & avis sur une large sélection de DVD & Blu-ray neufs ou d'occasion. I'm an artist, animator and Free Culture activist. Sita, déesse indienne et épouse dévouée, est répudiée par son mari, Rama. 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