A roof-top screening tradition that has been active since 2007, usually in the winter. Stay tuned for film previews, archival journeys, raw assemblies of video and sound, and formally interesting cinema. To be invited, please send us a message. For more see related events.
by Wang Bing
232 mins | 2023
6:30 pm*
Note* film starts earlier than usual, at 6:30pm, on account of its runtime.
There will be a short interval with food.
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. Featuring among others Patrice Lumumba, Krishna Menon, Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, Nikita Khrushchev, Nina Simone, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Abbey Lincoln, Adou Elenga...
Midnight's Third Child
Readings, Screenings and Discussions
with Naeem Mohaiemen
SUSPENDED :( Hope to be back in the near future
This season of projections at CAMP begins on weekend evenings starting Saturday, February 29, or leap year day.
We invite you in the cities of Batticaloa, Bombay, Chittagong, Delhi, Dhaka, Karachi, Khulna, Kolkata and Lahore, to change the course of a film's history, sip from its waters, taste its oddness of...
MOVE STAY OR DISAPPEAR
Saturday, June 10th 2023, 6pm onwards.
An outcome of a 6-week residency at CAMP in Chuim village Khar, a continuing dialogue with each other and with the studio.
"Ghar Mein Shehar Hona: City Housing in a Cultural Matrix, 1951 to 2020". Three evenings of immersive histories on CAMP Rooftop.
via RTI, TDR, Cyprus, Speculative Housing, Capital Flight, GBGB Andolan, Multicam Stings, Drone Leaks, Abu, Adarsh, Alyque, Naezy, Nayak, Rajjo, Tiger, .pdf and .xlsx.
Part 3 of our video-lectures on housing histories of Bombay-Mumbai 6:30 pm
From the rooftop of this artists' studio in Chuim Village, you are taken on a virtual tour of the neighbourhood. 90 minutes: Live video, audio and archival print material, with live commentary.
7:00 pm
ASSEMBLY, 30 min.
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YEH FREEDOM LIFE, 70 min
Followed by a discussion with Priya
7:00pm
Followed by a discussion with Anamika Haksar and many cast and crew members.
As part of Mother Courage and her Unruly, Loving Children
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.
Saturday May 6th
7:00 pm
CAMP Rooftop
90 minutes
Live and recorded video from location, with commentary.
Lets say a change of guard in the control room brings in new cinematographers and analysts, for whom the sun setting over Juhu beach is just the beginning of the evening's story.
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.
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
7:00 pm
CAMP Rooftop
This evening we bring to you some of the, lets call them migratory and joyous truths of the artist, poet, critic, marxist, screenplay writer, novelist and actor John Berger, as edited from sound, image and text archives of his work. Migratory in the sense of having something undogmatic, worldly and yet quite continuous to say, do, and make, in every recent decade. This small collection of materials suggests that we can think of the 20th century in artistic, irreducible as well as political and connected terms, without being crushed in their contradictions. And maybe even the 21st.
Pad.ma invites you toRivers without Banks at CAMP27th December, 2013 through 27th January, 2014Before the start of a new year; and among big and small resolutions for the future we chose to ask ourselves what is free cinema today, what is its political and perceptual economy, and what could we summon of its powers, before embarking on new journeys of making and thinking. Rivers without Banks is a screening program of films whose durations extend beyond conventional length. But importantly, this is not a collection put together quantitatively, even as we may argue that the epic scales present in the chosen films carry the weight of histories, and put together chronologically show us a century where individual everyday lives face the annals of terrible power; where the human condition battles with nature and technology, with love and loss, with good and evil.
The film evokes the practice of the diary film, at once observational and reflexive, and draws power from its twin strategies of frugal economy and long duration. Screening & discussion with Renu.
LOVE, PIRACY AND THE OFFICE OF
RELIGIOUS WEBLOG EXPANSION, and screenings of the film FACELESS. Tue 26 Jan 2010, 7:00 pm onwards.
Home for recurring live streaming projects.
Clips, edits, sirens and phantoms from the annotated archives pad.ma, indiancine.ma and related sites. An invitation to absorb, discuss, navigate and contribute new and old time-based media, in a weekly rhythm. To feel the ideas in them, and their potential in and as art, film, daily life, new theory and use. Without the frameworks of social media ;)
Home page is refreshed every Monday, older weeks remain as long-term references.
Contact and to contribute: emailATphantas.ma
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Video project that takes us on new and recently rebuilt roads in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and India. Endoscopic views from the interior of the road system, and of the interfaces through which pride, money, data, climate, and vulnerability are connected to it, heighten our sense of developmental possibility, failure, and the deep ambiguity of road achievements.
‘A Passage Through Passages’ is a collaboration with anthropologists, and draws upon ethnographic and archival work in five field sites. This film is part of Roads and the Politics of Thought, a 5-year ethnographic study of road-building in South Asia.
A never-ending project housed at CAMP around peoples histories of Bombay-Mumbai.
The New Medium was a curated programme for the Mumbai International Film Festival for three consecutive years (2016-2018). The inaugural program - in a twisted art-historical mode - framed cinema as a new medium (125 years old, when compared to the other arts), and scoured the century of cinema chronologically...
A space we built and run with others, located in the R and R colony of Lallubhai Compound, Mumbai.
AS IF is a series of exhibitions by CAMP across the winter /spring of 2014-15.
As If (I-V)
As If – I Rock, Paper, Scissors
EXPERIMENTER, Kolkata
January 7 - February 20 2015
As If – II Flight of the Black Boxes
24 JORBAGH, New Delhi
January 27 - February 24 2015
As If – III Country of the Sea
BHAU DHAJI LAD MUSEUM, Mumbai
February 21 - April 7 2015
As If – IV Night For Day
CHEMOULD PRESCOTT ROAD, Mumbai
March 9 - April 30 2015
As If – tV
Clark House Initiative, Mumbai
March 29 - May 20 2015
Pad.ma has a sister project.
Indiancine.ma is an annotated online archive of Indian film.
A project of listening, including with our ears, to some materials that seem to not touch us directly, but make up our "environment".
CAMP presents Saturday or Sunday evening screenings through winter,
exploring footage both within and outside the usual capsule of "the
film". An experience that could be similar to watching films, or at
other times harder to digest, or slower to release, closer to the moment of
shooting, less censorious, and less fearful of finitude. Another life,
another world of viewing and listening experiences is always possible.