[Reader-list] A Season of Footage and Films, Part 7. Disket Document. Sunday, February 6, 7:00 pm at CAMP, Mumbai

[rohitrellan at aol.in]

CAMP continues our winter season of screenings exploring footage, both 
within and without the usual capsule of "the film".  This Sunday we 
present:


Disket Document
60 mins.
2001
Chitrakarkhana


Sunday, February 6,  7:00 pm
At CAMP Roof
310, Alif Apartments,
34-A Chuim Village,
Khar West, Mumbai- 52




In July 2001, a few historians, journalists and activists are invited 
to Disket in the remote Nubra Valley of Ladakh, to participate in a 
National Integration Seminar.  However, it appears that there has been 
a miscommunication, on arrival they are told that the event is actually 
the celebration of "Buddh Mahotsav", part of a series of nation-wide 
events (the next was to be in Arunachal Pradesh) organised by the VHP. 
What were a group of mostly left-liberal folks to do? They performed 
impromptu speeches for the gathered public of Disket, and talked late 
into the night.

Attempts to reckon with the situation erupt only on the sidelines: for 
example at breakfast, where a 20-something Maulana from Delhi seeks to 
provoke the VHP representative at the table. Or in guest-house debates 
on topics such as "the left",  feminism, environmentalism, Islamic law 
and Kashmir.

The footage, shot by a participant, includes stadium scenes, a minibus 
ride returning from the stadium, a sunset stop, a friendly ghost's 
dance, and a peculiar atmosphere that hangs over this high-altitude 
encounter.

See you there!

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