Naked Yoga (film)
{{Short description|British documentary short (1974)}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Naked Yoga
| image = Naked_Yoga_film_Opening_titles_(1974).png
| caption =
| director = Paul Corsden
| producer = {{ubl|Ronald S. Kass|Mervyn Lloyd}}
| writer = Paul Corsden
| narrator = Alexis Korner
| starring =
| music =
| cinematography = Michael Elphick
| editing = Richard White
| distributor = EMI Films
| released = {{Film date|1974}}
| runtime = 24 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
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Naked Yoga is a 1974 British short documentary film directed by Paul Corsden.{{Cite web |title=Naked Yoga |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150246172 |access-date=6 December 2024 |publisher=British Film Institute}} It illustrates the practice of yoga in a natural setting and in the nude. The film includes images of women practicing yoga in Cyprus and in a studio. These visuals are interspersed with images of Eastern art and psychedelic effects. The narrator Alexis Korner relates the practice to Buddhist philosophy. It was shown on television in the UK,{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} however it has not been released to video.
The film was nominated for an Oscar in 1975, in the category Best Documentary Short Subject.{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/144667/Naked-Yoga/details |title=NY Times: Naked Yoga |accessdate=30 November 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091029082253/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/144667/Naked-Yoga/details |archive-date=29 October 2009 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |date=2009 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1975 |title=The 47th Academy Awards (1975) Nominees and Winners |accessdate=10 June 2019|work=oscars.org|date=6 October 2014 }}
Conservation status
Naked Yoga had previously been thought to be a lost film. Ed Carter, documentary curator at the Academy Film Archive, began searching for the film in 2004 and eventually located a Technicolor print of the film with the help of the film's cinematographer, Michael Elphick, in 2011.{{cite web |title=Friday, July 26, 2013 Naked Yoga - Forgotten Oscar Nominee Saved |url=http://docsrused.blogspot.com/2013/07/naked-yoga-forgotten-oscar-nominee-saved.html |website=Docs R Us |date=26 July 2013 |accessdate=25 April 2020}} That print served as the source for the archive's restoration of the film in 2012, in partnership with the British Film Institute.{{cite web|title=Preserved Projects|url=http://www.oscars.org/academy-film-archive/preserved-projects?title=naked+yoga&filmmaker=&category=All&collection=All|website=Academy Film Archive}}
See also
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