Ahmed Lateef

Banyan Deer

First Indian animated film in color, based on a tale from the Buddhist Jatakas.

Hell Has No Doors

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Surreal interpretive dance of a tormented woman. A woman dances up to a spinning mobile with a diamond necklace hanging off on part and a web at the center. Mesmerized, she mimics the mobile's movemnents in dance. She approaches a clock where every place reads 12, calling out for help. She finds a man, approaching him with desire, kissing him and oral sex is insinuated. The film becomes inverted as she pirouttes repeatly. Back to a positive image, she encounters a door into the heart of the mobile, the web. Sbe closes the door and encounters another version of herself, then again the mobile spinning. She then stabs herself repeately with a knife and screams.

Induwanee

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A visual interpretation of the Visage de l'inde Médiévale by Raymond Burnier. Intercutting images of the Khajuraho Group of Monuments, Hindu temples in India and the statues that adorn them, which are representative of the power of romantic and spiritual love.

Induwanee

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A visual interpretation of the Visage de l'inde Médiévale by Raymond Burnier. Intercutting images of the Khajuraho Group of Monuments, Hindu temples in India and the statues that adorn them, which are representative of the power of romantic and spiritual love.

"C" (Calicloth)

A semi-abstract animation film originally produced as a theatrical advertising film for release in India. It utilizes the textile designs of the Calico Mills of Bombay as its overall graphic structure.