by Iram Ghufran
50 mins, 2023
7:00 pm
Introduction and post-screening discussion with Iram Ghufran.
A science-fiction fable set in the "miracle city" of Yiwu, in one of the world's largest wholesale markets for small commodities.
When I was young and yet to begin a life of travel and adventure, Ibn Battuta the famous explorer told me that travelling will first leave you speechless and then turn you into a storyteller. The main events of my story take place in Miracle City in the 21st century. At this time, the city is a prominent metropolis on the New Silk Road. […] And if you listen carefully, you can actually hear everything speak. Locals claim that what is in Miracle City may be found elsewhere. But what is not here will not be found anywhere else.
Thus begins "A Terrible Beauty". Time is plastic as we travel into the near future, in the company of an unusual pair of guides, a mannequin and a person. They encounter a universe of “Forever” goods - that simultaneously entice and repel in their promises. The film immerses us in anthropomorphic objects-- dolls, mannequins, and androids, and the dread and excitement through which we encounter “companion copies” of the human. Its documentary observations makes us join a future that is already here, in which we have to rethink technology, mortality and what it means to be human.
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Sunday, 7:00 pm
100 mins
Pandemic shorts by Panahi, Poitras, Apichatpong, Weiwei, and others.
Join us for a season of new films at CAMP which explore configurations and revelations of "world", amidst a world in pieces.
We begin the year with
GRAND TOUR
by Miguel Gomes
2024, 120 mins.
7:00 pm.
in memorium, Tejas Pande.
by Johan Grimonprez
150 mins| 2024|
7:00 pm
A story about the encounter of American Jazz and African decolonisation, via the UN and the CIA, with a lot of world around it.
A tour of the work with CAMP in three acts.
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CAMP Study Day, brings together leading scholars of media, law, cinema, and visual art on the occasion CAMP's exhibition Video After Video: The Critical Media of CAMP. With Erika Balsom, Lawrence Liang, Debashree Mukherjee, Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Laura U. Marks.
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Light Industry
7:00 pm
The first and last sections from a 6-hour-long video essay, presented live by CAMP.
Priyank Gothwal presents a series of 8 works as a physical exhibition and accompanying lecture-performance, on the experiences and abstractions of time.
A conversation about toxicity, waste and equality at the closing of Mohit Shelare's exhibition at Chemould, with Yogesh, Zeenat, Priyank and Ashok.
"film objects"
A gathering organised by the Delhi based artist group first draft.
Saturday from 5 pm.
Phantas.ma is running a season dedicated to CAMP as part of Video After Video: The Critical Media of CAMP at MoMA.
A video a day, on the site.
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Shaina A gave a talk at the film studies conference at EFLU, Hyderabad titled Film After Video, Notes from CAMP.
Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar
Streaming on Union Docs.