[Reader-list] [Announcements] [DFA:] Fwd: exhibition of films

[amar kanwar]

Dear Friends

This is to invite you to an exhibition of my films.
The exhibition will open on *10th March, 2007 at 7 p.m*. at the APJ Gallery
New Delhi.

The exhibition will continue on *11th March from from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m*.
and on *17th and 18th March from 7 p.m - 10 p.m*.

A list of the films with synopsis is given at the end of this mail.
All the films will be presented simultaneously in different spaces at this
venue.
A map with directions to APJ Gallery ( B II 40,41,42, Mohan Co-operative
Industrial Estate
Mathura Road New Delhi ) can be found on www.apeejaymediagallery.com

Please do try and come.
regards

amar

FILMS WITH SYNOPSIS

*TRILOGY

A SEASON OUTSIDE*
There is perhaps, no border outpost in the world quite like Wagah, where
this film begins its exploration. An outpost where every evening people are
drawn to a thin white line
 and probably anyone in the eye of a conflict
could find themselves here. A Season Outside is a personal and philosophical
journey through past generations, conflicting positions, borders and time
zones.
30 minutes 1997

*A NIGHT OF PROPHECY*
Is it possible to understand the passage of time through poetry? And if that
were so even for one special moment then would it be possible to see the
future? The film travels in the states of
Maharashtra,  Andhra  Pradesh,  Nagaland and Kashmir trying to understand
the   past,   the severity of conflict and the cycles of change. Through
poetry   you suddenly see where each and all the territories are heading to,
where you belong and where to intervene, if you want to . The different
poetic narratives merge together, allowing us to see a more universal
language of symbols and meanings. The moment when this merger in the mind
takes place is the simple moment of prophecy.
77 minutes 2002

*TO REMEMBER*
Gandhi was born on the 2nd of October 1869   in the state of Gujarat. He was
assassinated on 30th   January 1948 in New Delhi.  This short silent film is
a homage to Gandhi , it is about his assassination and the massacres that
happened just a few months ago .
To Remember   is about a gallery and the smell of death.
Silent ,8 minutes  2003


*PORTRAITS (2005)*

*THE FACE*
We know what Pinochet and Idi Amin looked like but have you seen the face of
the Supreme Burmese dictator Senior General Than Shwe ?
*THET WIN AUNG*
How to remember you Thet ?  A life time and fifty nine  years in a single
moment.
*MA WIN MAW OO*
And how to bring back your memory Ma Win Maw Oo and that day in 1988 ?
*THE BODHI TREE*
A  short film about an artist's studio under tree .

Portraits has four short films –
The Face which emerged from the hypocrisy of India's present relationship
with the Burmese Military and its very own Gandhi,
Ma Win Maw Oo emerged from trying to relate to and experience the military
crackdown on Burmese students in August 1988 , through a single photograph
that was taken during the military crackdown.Ma Win Maw Oo  was killed by
the soldiers and the photograph captured that moment. News photographs gain
worldwide visibility for a time and then disappear from memory. This film is
an   attempt to relate to that moment once again and to   bring back that
image into public memory.
Thet Win Aung    recalls Thet's courage in resisting the Burmese
dictatorship and his 59  year prison sentence. Thet was killed in prison on
October 16, 2006.
The Bodhi Tree  emerged from a moment that reflected the close relationship
of art with the lives of people. This film helps us to look at the other
films within the exhibition   as well as our own work as artists.

*SOMEWHERE IN MAY*
Somewhere in May traverses normalcy, freedom and claustrophobia in exile in
Norway, quietly creating an unease that needs to be explored. The film lies
in the intersection of two trajectories that occur on the same day. The two
trajectories have been filmed in the same city and their juxtaposition
interrogates several issues related to democracy and its simulation, to the
holy missions of great national projects and to the individuals relationship
with the politics of today.
Invoking the self, the film emerges from the 17th of May celebrations of the
Norwegian National Day in 2004 which was also the day the Burmese military
dictatorship began a sham National Convention for Democracy inside Burma.
Through the 'Democratic Voice of Burma' (DVB), a small radio station in
Oslo, the Burmese resistance reports on this sham convention as it
broadcasts news that is secretly heard by thousands within Burma
37 minutes, 2005

*HENNINGSVAER*
Henningsvaer is about being in exile and the thin line that can exist
between paradise and prison. Filmed entirely through glass, this film is
located on the famous cod fishing island of Henningsvaer in Norway in the
Arctic Circle.
15 Minutes, 2006

*KING OF DREAMS*
Based on a narrative that integrates several anonymous first person
narratives
King of Dreams is about creating a passage through the 'stereotypical'
terrain's of masculinity and sexuality in India. It's about sex and the
violence that can operate in the familiar space where desire meets love.
English, 30 minutes, 2001


*SHRINES*
(1991-2001)

*IN THE MEMORY OF SHANKAR GUHA NIYOGI

Part One: The Day After
Part Two: The Tape
Part Three: Eight Years Later*

A short moment to remember Shankar Guha Niyogi .

Niyogi was the leader of probably the largest democratic mass movement of
workers, peasants and adivasis in post Independent India. He was murdered on
28 th September 1991 while he was leading a strike that was demanding jobs
and minimum wages for contract workers in the ancillary industries around
the Bhilai steel plant in Bhilai, Chattisgarh.

Before he died Niyogi left behind an audio tape recorded statement in which
he predicted his assassination. An extract of the tape recording is
presented here.

In June 1997, the trial court in Durg, Madhya Pradesh convicted two
leading   industrialists of Bhilai and three others on the charge of the
murder of Niyogi and sentenced them to life imprisonment. The court also
awarded the death sentence to the hired assassin. In June 1998, the Jabalpur
High Court reversed this judgement and acquitted all the accused. In January
2005, the Supreme Court of India acquitted the industrialists and the others
accused except for the hired assassin who was sentenced to life
imprisonment.

The struggle of the workers for enforcement of labour laws and observance of
constitutional provisions still continues.


*DEATH OF A COLONEL*

A  short moment to remember Lt. Colonel Pratap Save.

A distinguished soldier in the Indian Army , Colonel Save retired   in 1995
after 33 years  of service in the army. He returned   to his ancestral
village in Umbergaon , an old fishing village in Gujarat . He was elected
President of the Kinara Bachao Sangarsh Samiti ( a village association of
the local fisher folk and   farmers ) The association was protesting against
the construction of a mega port in their village. Lt. Colonel Save was
arrested by the Gujarat police and tortured and killed in jail.   He died on
the 20 th of April 2000.

*THE LONG MARCH*

A short moment to remember  an anti bauxite mining resistance in the
Kashipur valley in South Orissa.

This resistance began around an old hill called Baphlimalli  which contains
173 million tons of bauxite. Baphlimalli was and still is home to an ancient
adivasi goddess. The adivasi villagers who lived around the slopes of
Baphlimalli began the resistance against powerful international bauxite and
aluminium industrial cartels. The resistance has succeeded for over a decade
to prevent mining and the destruction of their livelihoods and ancestral
lands.

*OLD MAN BY THE SHRINE*

By the side of a little shrine across the road that passes through a forest
and up a hill to a place where they say that at night time the grass glows
like neon lights and the water flows with out a source in sight lives an old
man with eyes that sparkle like diamonds and a voice that pierces the soul.


-- 
AMAR KANWAR
New Delhi
India

Email :
amarkanwar at gmail.com


-- 
AMAR KANWAR
New Delhi
India

Email :
amarkanwar at gmail.com

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