[Reader-list] Call for Applications: Workshop on Film Curatorial Practices, Katha Centre for Film Studies, Mumbai

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Call for Applications
Workshop on Film Curatorial Practices, Katha Centre for Film Studies
(22nd – 26th August)
 
Venue: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahlaya, Mumbai
 
Katha Centre for Film Studies and the India Foundation for the Arts in association with the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahlaya (formerly Prince of Wales Museum) invite young cinephiles, film scholars, artists and students for its second Workshop on Film Curatorial Practices from 22 – 26 August, 2011.
 
The workshop aims to equip young film enthusiasts with specialized knowledge about and around the idea of Film Curation. It will also give them an opportunity to interact with established practioners and academicians, and engage with them in a cinematic discourse centred on film curation. 
 
The workshop
 
Film Curating is concerned with a more evolved understanding of the moving image. Film and video are artistic mediums – much like what canvas and brush are to a painter. Today, both filmmakers and visual artists work increasingly with the medium of the moving image to make their art works. In addition, museums and galleries are increasingly exhibiting moving image work – experimental film and installation; and video art and video installation. It is this artistic and aesthetic understanding of the moving image that the Katha Centre for Film Studies is looking to develop through its workshop on Film Curatorial Practice.  
 
The workshop will create a platform to represent, think and debate the following:
·         Curatorial research methods
·         Curatorial writing
·         Practical aspects of curation
·         Context specific curation
·         Different ways of engaging with audiences
·         Critical understandings on the history of film criticism and curation
 
For the second workshop, Katha Centre for Film Studies has engaged distinguished practioners, filmmakers, curators and academicians - Madhusree Dutta, Gargi Sen, Bina Paul, Amar Kanwar, Shai Heradia and Moinak Biswas.
 
At the end of the five-day workshop, participants will submit their own curatorial proposals, based on which they will be selected for a second one-day workshop, to be held two months after the first. Between the two workshops, a mentor will guide the participants and help them refine their curatorial proposals. 
 
After the second workshop, the selected participants will get an opportunity to curate a day-long film festival.
 
 
This workshop series is a part of a four-year Curatorship Programme conceptualized by India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) in collaboration with select institutions from across the country. This Curatorship Programme is funded by the Jamsetji Tata Trust.
 
(For more information on IFA’s Curatorship Programme visit: www.indiaifa.org/article.asp?id=645&viewType=online 
For more information about Katha Centre for Film Studies: www.kathacfs.in )
 
Important Dates:
 
Last date for receiving Applications:  10th August, 2011
 
Workshop: 22nd-26th August, 2011
 
How to Apply: 
Send us:
·         A copy of your latest Resume
·         The adjoined application form 
Email:  katha.film at gmail.com  with “WFCP 2011” in the subject line
By post: 
Katha Centre for Film Studies,
A102, Sumeru, MHADA, 
SVP Nagar, Andheri West, 
Mumbai 400 053
 
 
Note:
For the 5-day workshop, we are not charging any registration fee. During the workshop breakfast and lunch shall be provided by us. Travel expenses and stay of participants coming from cities other than Mumbai would be taken care of by Katha Centre for Film Studies. 
 
 
 
 
Application: Workshop on Film Curatorial Practice 2011
 
Name: ____________________________________________________
Age: ___          M\F
Educational Qualification: ______________________________________
Current Employment status: ____________________________________
 

1. Conceptualize a film programme/package that you would like to curate. Please include a list of films that you plan to include, with a detailed explanation as to why these films are significant to your concept. 
 

 

2. Write a 300 word critical note on any film festival/film programme you may have attended.
 

 
3. If given free access to any type of venue, where would you want your film programme to be screened?

 

 

4. Why do you think the practice of film curation is important to study/investigate?
 

 
 
 
5. How familiar are you with the concept of curation, and in what context have you thought about it. Please elaborate. 
 

 

 
6. 
“The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed?” - Federico Fellini 
Discuss in the context of changing ways of engaging with cinema.