Crazy Fish Sing
A Sous Rature of Still Here
Crazy Fish Sing (Yogurt Editions 2024) is a visual art book inspired by Suranga Katugampala's forthcoming film, Still Here. Situated in an experimental territory on the border between noir and documentary, the film is shot in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and Milan, Italy. Transporting the reader through its real, imagined, and affective geographies, Crazy Fish Sing offers a unique behind-the-scenes perspective on the making of Still Here and the questions this film raises about cultural hybridity, urbanization, and realism.
Research territories
Processes of participation and interdisciplinarity of Still Here's cinematographic practice, with a focus on cinema, urban and artistic regeneration, public art, architecture and video art.
Experimentation with a cinematographic language that revisits genres (cinema of reality, neo-noir, erotic cinema), integrates heterogeneous materials (frames from other films, archive materials photographic, video/audio) and reinterprets trends in contemporary cinema.
From real space to cinematic third space
Transnationality in contemporary cinema
Bodies and voices between fiction and reality
Independent cinema and public funding
Emergence of new currents of documentary making
Publisher
Yogurt Editions
Promoted by
Terzo Paesaggio
Supported by
Italian Council, Mibact
In collaboration with
Kaiya Collective
5e6film
Fondazione Pianoterra
Yogurt Magazine
Stony Brook University
Edited by
Simone Brioni
Art Director
Francesco Rombaldi
Photographers
Federico Allocca
Suranga D. Katugampala
Mauro Ronga
Dario Spinazzola
Graphic designer
Melissa Pallini
Illustrations
Prasad Hettiarachchi
with the contribution of
Ivelise Perniola, Researcher, Theorist of documentary cinema
Derek Duncan, Modern Languages researcher
Emma Bond, Cultural researcher
Anuradha Kodagoda, Film critic
Fabrice Dubosc, Psychoanalyst, Author, Researcher
Marta Bertani, Architect, landscaper
Federico Pedroni, Film critic
Pamudu Tennakoon, Urbanist
Matteo Binci, Curator
Graziano Chiscuzzu, Film producer
Paolo Benzi, Film producer
Loredana Polezzi, Linguist
Partners
University of Visual and performing art Colombo (Sri Lanka)
Musée de l'histoire de l'immigration (France)
University of Bergen (Norway)
Monash University (Australia)
Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Int. Film Festival (China)
Stony Brook University (USA)
Universidade de S. Paulo USP (Brazil)
Pathshala Institute (Bangladesh)
ICI Berlin (Germany)
Universiy Concordia (Canada)
University of Oxford (UK)
University of Sorbonne (France)
University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Prince Claus Fund (Netherlands)
Association Culturale Odemà (Italy)
Fondazione Pianoterra (Italy)
5e6 film (Italy)
Mudec Milan (Italy)
An art book that takes readers on a mesmerizing journey through real, imagined, and affective geographies.
Press
The Shanghai Literary Review 上海文藝評論
Still Here is a profound and disquieting film directed by Suranga Katugampala. It is an experience that makes the audience feel like a fish out of water. It is a dark fable that inhabits a disconcerting zone between neonoir, documentary, and video art...
Artribune
Un film che uscirà in autunno e che collega la città di Colombo al quartiere Corvetto a Milano, un libro, il cinema emergente italiano che racconta lo Sri Lanka e la mostra di un artista che porta le tensioni dell’Asia Meridionale tra gli interessi di India e Cina.
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