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

[shaina a]

Dear all, and with apologies for cross-posting.

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

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* *Sunday February 6,  7:00 pm*
At CAMP Roof <http://camputer.org/campstudio.html>
310, Alif Apartments,
34-A Chuim Village,
Khar West, Mumbai- 52


In July 2001, about a dozen historians, journalists and activists are
invited to Disket in the Nubra Valley, 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 their speeches for the
gathered people 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 Islamic law, feminism, environmentalism and Kashmir.

The videos, shot by a participant, include 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.


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