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The House of Auspicious Hours: the trailer

The house as a diagram, seen from above like a chart. A printing press keeps the time, and the chart rises into the grid of Chandigarh. 97 seconds, 4K, with sound. Every line on screen is the book's own.

1. 0:00The bazaar of hours
2. 0:10The square
3. 0:19An empty sky
4. 0:29The press
5. 0:40The gate
6. 0:47The drawer
7. 0:52The type city
8. 1:03The city read as a sky
9. 1:16The drawer, closed
10. 1:23The House of Auspicious Hours

Every line on screen, with its time

1. 0:00The bazaar of hoursAlmanac figures become a market where every hour has a price. In the Malhotra house, time was not a river. It was a bazaar.
2. 0:10The squareA birth chart drawn with a ruler. Not what. When.
3. 0:19An empty skyIf you want to look at my sky, there is nothing there to look at.
4. 0:29The pressInside a printing press, the film's clock. He did not know that he had just agreed to be invented.
5. 0:40The gateAn iron gate at night and an old scooter; nobody knocks. He was thirty the night he caught Pandit Kishori Lal inventing the sky.
6. 0:47The drawerAdit, and a drawer at eleven at night. He did not tell anyone.
7. 0:52The type cityA drawer of Urdu type flown over like a city, wheat through an unfinished road, cards with a blank. The chart is not the reading. The chart is the container. A family does not tolerate a blank.
8. 1:03The city read as a skyThe chart rises into the sectors of Chandigarh, and an arrow runs off the paper to LAHORE. Which is the truth, in a costume they will let through the door.
9. 1:16The drawer, closedIt has a person inside it.
10. 1:23The House of Auspicious HoursThe title, printed: the missing word goes into the blank. Manu Vishranti.

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