Vipin Vijay

Directing

Vipin Vijay

Born

1977-03-25 (49)

Place of birth

Kannur, Kerala, India

Known for

Directing

Credits

19 titles

Vipin Vijay is a Mollywood/Malayalam cinematographer, film director, and screenwriter. He is the first Indian to attain the prestigious Tiger Award at the Rotterdam IFF for his Malayalam documentary film “Video Game,” and one of the two filmmakers in Focus at the 10th edition of the International Documentary & Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK). He was born in 1977, Kannur, Kerala, India, and grew up in Calicut. Vipin is the son of E.Vijayan Nair (Professor of mechanical engineering at the “National Institute of Technology, Calicut), and Vasanthi Vijayan. He grew up reading his Grandfather’s diaries, which made him understand his great Grandfather’s performances and the experience of th…

Known for

Palace of the Winds poster
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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.

Palace of the Winds

2003

No artwork available
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The creative self of the Master Adoor Gopalakrishnan gets explored through self-reflections, memories and conceptual interventions.

Bhoomiyil Chuvadurachu

2014

Adoor: A Journey in Frames poster
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Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s films map the history of the region from the inside. This Documentary looks at how the filmmaker dealt with human conditions at the most elemental level with a sensibility that makes his films universal in appeal.

Adoor: A Journey in Frames

2015

Egotic World poster
5.0

Art film about a woman dying and three princes taking a journey. Vipin's diploma film at Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata (2003), looks at the ideas of entrapment and liberation.

Egotic World

2000

The Tetrahedron poster
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Maya the protagonist, on her way to the college, hears a radio news of a strange geometrical figure with the shape of a ‘tetrahedron’ that appears from nowhere besides the Nazca lines in Peru. In the mean time, Maya’s friend Divya’s father, Neelan, goes missing. Few days later he is found from a distant land with signatures of pre-historic habitats around the place. Maya meets a few people from distant lands, of different races, roaming around a desolated architecture. Are they humanoid creatures? By the end of the film, through a dream passage that connects both Maya and Divya, we get to know about the disappearance of Maya.

The Tetrahedron

2018

No artwork available
6.0

A complex video journey on a motorcar, that incorporates mythic themes of searching, the need for being, for love, for a home and for a promise of a different future.

Video Game

2006

Behind the camera

Palace of the Winds poster
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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.

Palace of the Winds

2003

Palace of the Winds poster
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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.

Palace of the Winds

2003

No artwork available
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The creative self of the Master Adoor Gopalakrishnan gets explored through self-reflections, memories and conceptual interventions.

Bhoomiyil Chuvadurachu

2014

Adoor: A Journey in Frames poster
NR

Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s films map the history of the region from the inside. This Documentary looks at how the filmmaker dealt with human conditions at the most elemental level with a sensibility that makes his films universal in appeal.

Adoor: A Journey in Frames

2015

Egotic World poster
5.0

Art film about a woman dying and three princes taking a journey. Vipin's diploma film at Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata (2003), looks at the ideas of entrapment and liberation.

Egotic World

2000

Egotic World poster
5.0

Art film about a woman dying and three princes taking a journey. Vipin's diploma film at Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata (2003), looks at the ideas of entrapment and liberation.

Egotic World

2000

The Tetrahedron poster
NR

Maya the protagonist, on her way to the college, hears a radio news of a strange geometrical figure with the shape of a ‘tetrahedron’ that appears from nowhere besides the Nazca lines in Peru. In the mean time, Maya’s friend Divya’s father, Neelan, goes missing. Few days later he is found from a distant land with signatures of pre-historic habitats around the place. Maya meets a few people from distant lands, of different races, roaming around a desolated architecture. Are they humanoid creatures? By the end of the film, through a dream passage that connects both Maya and Divya, we get to know about the disappearance of Maya.

The Tetrahedron

2018

The Tetrahedron poster
NR

Maya the protagonist, on her way to the college, hears a radio news of a strange geometrical figure with the shape of a ‘tetrahedron’ that appears from nowhere besides the Nazca lines in Peru. In the mean time, Maya’s friend Divya’s father, Neelan, goes missing. Few days later he is found from a distant land with signatures of pre-historic habitats around the place. Maya meets a few people from distant lands, of different races, roaming around a desolated architecture. Are they humanoid creatures? By the end of the film, through a dream passage that connects both Maya and Divya, we get to know about the disappearance of Maya.

The Tetrahedron

2018

No artwork available
6.0

A complex video journey on a motorcar, that incorporates mythic themes of searching, the need for being, for love, for a home and for a promise of a different future.

Video Game

2006

The Image Threads poster
3.7

A computer teacher, his black-magician grandfather, and a female cyber-creature promote a series of pre-destined rendezvous, both online and offline, over the shreds of mnemonic time and space, at the cleavages of various parlors of subculture. The film explores the possible correlation of digital aesthetics and black art, situated in post-human consciousness.

The Image Threads

2010

The Image Threads poster
3.7

A computer teacher, his black-magician grandfather, and a female cyber-creature promote a series of pre-destined rendezvous, both online and offline, over the shreds of mnemonic time and space, at the cleavages of various parlors of subculture. The film explores the possible correlation of digital aesthetics and black art, situated in post-human consciousness.

The Image Threads

2010

Vishaparvam poster
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A video essay that looks into the contemporary simulation of the old relationship between sign and referent. A traditional toxicologist, a convict, a herpetologist, a traditional healer – ponder deep to get closer to the reality of things that are under layer upon layer of images.

Vishaparvam

2012

Vishaparvam poster
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A video essay that looks into the contemporary simulation of the old relationship between sign and referent. A traditional toxicologist, a convict, a herpetologist, a traditional healer – ponder deep to get closer to the reality of things that are under layer upon layer of images.

Vishaparvam

2012

No artwork available
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A video essay on the Ghoramara low–lying islands, disappearing quickly, due to erosion and sea level rise – in the process, also documenting the disappearance of its grassroots imaginaries.

Anthropocene Relooked

2018

No artwork available
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A video essay on the Ghoramara low–lying islands, disappearing quickly, due to erosion and sea level rise – in the process, also documenting the disappearance of its grassroots imaginaries.

Anthropocene Relooked

2018

The Razor's Edge poster
8.5

Kshurasyadhara (The Razor's Edge), based on the temple oracles of Kerala. The film premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR),2002 and was shown in film festivals at Tehran, Milan, International Film Festival of Kerala, MIFF. "Kshurasyadhara" won the best Malayalam film commendation award 2001, Indian Documentary Producer's Association (IDPA), Best Director Award of the Kerala State Film & TV Awards 2001, and the National Jury award of the Mumbai International short & Animation film festival (MIFF) in 2002. "Kshurasyadhara" is now a part of permanent archives at the United States Library of Congress.

The Razor's Edge

2001

No artwork available
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Experimental short about India's problematic transition to modernity.

A Perfumed Garden

2008

No artwork available
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Experimental short about India's problematic transition to modernity.

A Perfumed Garden

2008

A Flowering Tree poster
5.0

A closer look at a taboo subject in India: menstruation and how it is embedded in Hindu rituals and beliefs, dating back to ancient times. A short docu-fiction in the enigmatic, associative narrative style typical for this award winning South Indian director. This film by Tiger Award winner (in the category short film) contemplates in a very exciting visual manner on one of the taboo subjects in India - female menstruation and its connection with Hindu rites and beliefs. While in Brahmin Orthodox culture the period of menstruation is considered to be impure and women are not supposed to cook or touch any food prepared for other family members, the main character in this film evokes old menstrual rituals and places them in ancient Indian culture.

A Flowering Tree

2007