Documentary / Documentation
Nov. 6, 2012 - Nov. 7, 2012
DOCUMENTARY/DOCUMENTATION
NATIONAL SEMINAR
Organized by the Department of Film Studies in collaboration with The Media
Lab, Jadavpur University
November 6,7, 2012
Schedule
DAY 1
10.30 AM -11.00 AM: Inauguration
Welcome Address: Dr. Madhuja Mukherjee, Head, Department of Film Studies
Inaugural Address: Prof. Souvik Bhattacharya, Vice Chancellor, Jadavpur
University
11.00-11.30 AM: TEA
11.30 AM -12.30 PM:
Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore
‘The Death and Rebirth of Verisimilitude in the Age of the Digital’
Chair: Sanjoy Mukhopadhyay, Dept. of Film Studies, Jadavpur University
12.30 PM -1.30 PM:
Paromita Vohra, Independent Filmmaker, Mumbai
[Untitled]
Chair: Manas Ghosh, Dept. of Film Studies, Jadavpur University
1.30 PM -2.30 PM: LUNCH
2
2.30 PM -4.00 PM:
Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran, independent art practitioners, CAMP,
Mumbai
[Untitled]
Chair: Ravi Vasudevan, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
4.00 PM -5.30 PM:
Panel Discussion: Documenting the Everyday
Speakers:
Priyaa Ghosh, Research Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi
Shubham Roy Choudhury, Research Scholar, Jadavpur
Pallavi Paul, Research Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
Delhi
University
New
Chair: Hardikbrata Biswas, School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University
5.30 PM -6.00 PM: Coffee
6.00 PM onwards: Screening of An Indian Day aka India 67 (S. Sukhdev, 1968)
DAY II
10.30 AM -11.30 AM:
Amlan Dasgupta, Dept. of English, Jadavpur University
‘The Digital Object of Desire’
Chair: Madhuja Mukherjee, Dept. of Film Studies, Jadavpur University
11.30 AM-12.00 Noon: TEA
3
12.00 Noon- 1 PM:
Moinak Biswas, Dept. of Film Studies, Jadavpur University
‘From Document to Work: Introduction to a Project’
Chair: Anindya Sengupta, Dept. of Film Studies, Jadavpur University
1.00 PM -2.00 PM: LUNCH
2.30 PM -3.30 PM:
Ravi Vasudevan, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
‘Film as Infrastructure: Information, Communication, and Exhibition Practices
in Colonial and Early Independent India’
Chair: Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society,
Bangalore
3.30 PM -5.30 PM:
Conversations: Talking Documentaries
Speakers:
Nilotpal Majumdar, Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute,
Kolkata in conversation with Abhiijit Roy, Dept. of Film Studies,
Jadavpur University
Shyamal Karmakar, Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute,
Kolkata in conversation with Bikramjit Gupta, Independent
Filmmaker, Kolkata
Q, Independent Filmmaker, Kolkata, in conversation with
Subhajit Chatterjee, Dept. of Film Studies, Jadavpur University
5.30 PM -6.00 PM: Coffee
6.00 PM onwards: Screening of Graveyard of Memories (Dir. Ankur Das, 2011)
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