Or the discovery of the “creature” Emmanuel Grimaud …
Ganesh Yourself by Emmanuel Grimaud, discovered at the Cinéma du Réel, will be broadcast on Arte TV the 5th September at the occasion of the Ganesh annual feast. The Parisian parade celebrating the god with an elephant head and four hands is also held that day.
In parallel, the exhibition “Persona, étrangement humain” being held at the Musée du Quai Branly presents the Ganesh robot until November 13.
A special session of the film is scheduled for October 7 at 2:00 PM at the Musée Guimet.
In the tumultuous city of Mumbai, a strange robot appears. Its name is Bappa, and it looks like the god, Ganesha. Anyone can volunteer to control it from a distance, and so to take on the voice of God.
Soon, Bappa becomes a plausible interlocution’s interface. While the Ganesh festival at his best, Hindu priests use it to retransmit incantations, astrologers resort to it to make predictions to their customers and activists diffuse through it social reform messages. For the first time in the history of religions, it is possible to put in the place of a god and devotees, to talk to him, the time of a conversation or consultation.
Emmanuel Grimaud is an anthropologist, filmmaker and researcher at the CNRS in Paris. He was interested in fields as diverse as robotics, eye movements, astro-morphology or measurement techniques of aura. He is also the co-curator of the exhibition “Persona, étrangement humain.”
Check out an excerpt here!
