#Bales2023FilmChallenge by @bales1181
April 21, 2023: Fiddler playing in movie
“Singin’ in the Rain” (1952)
Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor play fiddles while singing and tap dancing to the song “Fit as a Fiddle”.
#SinginInTheRain #GeneKelly #DonaldOConnor #FiddlersFrolic #Cinemastodon #FilmMastodon @film
#Bales2023FilmChallenge April 21: A fiddler for #FiddlersFrolic
In Mayan worldview, mortals move along the horizontal, gods along the vertical plane. A boy travels both worlds, united by music and wonder.
Juanito, a #Mixquic boy with hypersensitive hearing finds solace from the hustle of #MexicoCity in the silence of the chinampas – the pre-Hispanic man-made agricultural plots in lake #Xochimilco. There he plays his cardboard fiddle for the nature around him, until the sound from a real violin reaches him. The violinist, an old hermit who lives on one of the #chinampas, takes the boy in and teaches him how to master his hand-built instrument Yanco. When the man dies, the boy goes out at night to be able to play Yanco. In a changing world where the living and the dead used to naturally cross paths, the strings stir different to some.
The #Nahuatl film Yanco (Servando González / Mohy Quandour, 1961) is a small cinematic miracle that begs for a beautiful restoration akin to how കുമ്മാട്ടി [Kummatty] (Govindan Aravindan, 1979) opened up the world to indigenous filmmaking.
#film #cinema #Mexico #ServandoGonzález #MohyQuandour #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @bales1181 @film https://letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bales2023filmchallenge/
The kids in the Fediverse are playing a game. Find the rules at the clubhouse and play along! Coming up in April: 21 Fiddler Playing in Movie 22 Lots of Rain in Movie 23 Scene in a Laboratory 24 Someone Screaming in Movie 25 License Plate Seen in Movie 26 Main Actor/Actress is Australian 27 Morse Code Heard in Movie 28 Comedy You Can Watch With Kids 29 Someone Looking Through a Telescope 30 Someone with a Wild Hairdo
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