Events

The Country of the Sea

Single-exposure solar cyanotype print on cotton fabric
2015
16 X 5 feet
at Experimenter, Kolkata
Raster-Emerging from the grid
November 18 to December 31, 2016

CAMP with Shunya Collective present a large solar cyanotype map of the sea, part of the long-term maritime project Wharfage.

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Keimena - documenta 14

From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf

The first in a series of curated films to be aired at midnight on Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation's public TV channel as part documenta 14 programming.

11:59 pm
December 19, 2016

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THIRD LITTLE CINEMA INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL

Opening Film
From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf
Goethe Institut, Kolkata
3 December, 2016
6:00 pm

Masterclass with Shaina Anand
TENT
(Theatre for Experiments with New Technologies)
4 Bipin Pal Road
4:00 pm to 8:00 pm

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From Janta Colony to Janta Colony

(imaginary to destroyed)
A Journey through Housing in Bombay
Part-I: 1950 to 1982
Tuesday, 29th November, 2016
6:30 pm to 9 pm

From "Shehar aur Sapna" to the Olga Tellis case. Via print and film, music, love, bulldozers, state propaganda and people's archives.

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Battle for Banaras

Battle for Banaras
Kamal Swaroop, 2014
2hrs 13mins
Friday, 18th November. 8 pm
Kamal and the crew will be present.

Through the film we cutaway to the river's edge and two men talking, about this place, and about politics older than the modern Indian city. Then we enter the city again, and its rushes of electoral spectacle, surging crowds, politically astute residents, actions designed for this time and place. When Kamal Swaroop says "I am no longer speaking, in my films" he seems to mean that he watching the crowds, listening, looking from whatever distance is possible, often with a long lens and a small crew.

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Ghashiram Kotwal - the film by YUKT

Ghashiram Kotwal (1976)
103 mins.

Kavita Gherao (1998)
20 mins.

Saturday 17th December, 2016
6:30 pm
CAMP rooftop

Ghashiram Kotwal is the only collectively authored production of YUKT (some members say it stood for: Union of Kinematographers and Technicians) which included people whose names are today far more familiar than when the film was made in 1976, such as Om Puri or Kamal Swaroop.

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THE NEW MEDIUM I

A chronological viewing of 14 films beginning with Vertovs Man with the Movie Camera, and concluding with Farockis Parallel I-IV; The New Medium presents innovations in Cinema.


At the 18th MAMI Film Festival
20th October to 27th October 2016
Mumbai

When the moving image came into being it was seen as the seventh art, an alchemical medium with the potential to transform the spatial arts: architecture, sculpture and painting, and the temporal arts: music, poetry and dance.

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Archive Building

Floods, Fungus, Friendship and Fibre

Tuesday July 5th, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
at R and R
Lallubhai Compound
Mankhurd, Mumbai

With Aaaaarg, Memory of the World, Open Media Library, Custodians Online solidarity, and others.

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Scanning Workshop

July 2nd and 3rd, 2016.
A workshop on practical scanning and managing collections, with a group of local and international experts and enthusiasts on the subject.

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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf

at

The Ocean After Nature
YBCA, San Francisco
curated by Alaina Claire Feldman

Screening dates:
July 5, August 20 2016

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Mosiac Rooms

From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf

with an introduction by Edward Simpson, curated by Nada Raza


at Mosaic Rooms, London
14th April, 2016 7:00 pm

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Limits Extension Anniversary

Saturday, April 16, 2016

5:00pm onwards

R & R
Lallubhai Compound

With contributions by: Simpreet Singh, Nisha Kundar, Ashok Sukumaran, Hussain Indorewala, Vidyadhar Date, and others.

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