Khasi Films Through The AgesFilm is a communication medium that has the broad appeal and response to the public at large and to a group of individuals at different levels of intellectual discourse on wide ranging issues of education, commerce, documentation, research, archive, dissemination of information and above all entertainment and usually without any language barrier. A good film director conveys his or her message to viewers through visuals with limited oral narration. In this century, film production develops very fast in the world. With the emergence of digital technology and the advancement ...
The Khasi Visual Art Tradition.The hallmark that emerges from the knowledge to create is the original entity of the creator which is different from another person with the same or similar aptitude- known as Art. The hallmark or distinctive entity of a particular individual is called 'matti', 'mat' is the short syllable for 'khmat' meaning face or front and 'ti' is the short syllable for 'kti' meaning hand in Khasi. Knowledge or to know means 'tip' and create means 'thaw' in Khasi language; hence 'mattithaw' or 'mattipthaw' means an object created with knowledge and executed by hand that stimulate ...