The four-day Rock Art festival began with a short documentary film — Cave of Forgotten Dreams — on the first day of the festival before the Bhopalites at State Museum here on Wednesday.
The audience was taken on screen expeditions inside the 20,000 years old caves of South France on the first day of the fest.
The documentary is based on the works of Jean Clottes along with other pre-historians. Showcasing the history of caves the documentary displayed the unfolded facts of the lifestyle of the people used to live in those caves.
Majorly the prehistoric cave drawings the oldest ever discovered are showcased in this documentary. The documentary is directed and written by Werner Herzog.
In 1994, a group of scientists discovered a cave in Southern France perfectly preserved for over 20,000 years and containing the earliest known human paintings. “We went inside examining beautiful artwork created by our ancient ancestors around 32,000 years ago,” he said, adding that these paintings and the interiors of the caves since then are untouched and have been preserved. The group of scientists was led by Jean Marie Chauvet take the audiences to this marvelous expedition.
Since the cave is close to everyone except a handful of scholars, this film probably represents only chance to see inside of the cave.
The audience then got an opportunity and had a broad discussion with Jean
Clottes regarding the history of the caves.