[Reader-list] April 4: Film screening: LA SCONOSCIUTA(The Unknown) /April 6: Film Screening and Talk with Rebecca Horn / April 7: Retrospective of films by Parvez Imam/ April 9: Jai Bhim Comrade, Habitat Centre

[rohitrellan at aol.in]

FILM SCREENING
At Istituto Italiano di Cultura/New Delhi
ON WEDNESDAY 4TH APRIL 2012 AT 6.30 P.M. AND
RE-SCREEN ON SATURDAY 7TH APRIL 2012
(TWO SCREENINGS)AT 2.00 P.M. & 6.30 P.M.
 
Focus on WOMEN PORTRAITS
 
The Film    :          LA  SCONOSCIUTA(The Unknown)
Director     :          Giuseppe Tornatore 
Duration    :          115 min. 
Year          :          2006
Cast          :          Kseniya Rappoport, Michele Placido, Claudia Gerini ….
 
Venue        :          Istituto Italiano di Cultura, New Delhi, Multimedia Hall

 
Entry by a valid photo ID Card


Italian Embassy Cultural Centre
50- E Chandragupta Marg
Chanakyapuri, New Delhi -110 021
Phone: 0091- 11- 26871901/03/04 Ext. 214
Fax: 0091- 11- 26871902

Italian Embassy Cultural Centre
50- E Chandragupta Marg
Chanakyapuri, New Delhi -110 021
Phone: 0091- 11- 26871901/03/04 Ext. 214
Fax: 0091- 11- 26871902


Film Screening and Talk with Rebecca Horn 
Friday, April 06, 2012, 
5.30 p.m. 

National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), 
Jaipur House, India Gate
New Delhi - 110003

National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), 
Jaipur House, India Gate
New Delhi - 110003

Moon Mirror Journey
Germany 2011, 72 minutes
Director and Texts: Rebecca Horn
Music: Hayden Chisholm 

'Moon Mirror Journey' by artist Rebecca Horn sheds new light on her most important works from the last 25 years. The arc spans from “Concert in Reverse” in Münster (1987) through “Concert for Buchenwald” in Weimar (1999) and the large retrospective at the Gropius Bau in Berlin (2006). From a huge archive of film material she has created a poetic and thrilling journey through her life accompanied by the eclectic and enchanting music of Hayden Chisholm who had written music already for many of her installations featured in the film. The artist herself describes the film as a “Sufi Journey”, one which travels from Samarkand to New York. 

Rebecca Horn is regarded as one of the most versatile and creative artists in Germany. From 1989 to 2009, she has been a professor at the Hochschule der Künste (Academy of Fine Arts) in Berlin. A regular participant in the Kassel art exhibition 'documenta' - her first showing of works took place in 1972 - she has long since gained international recognition and acclaim. The high point of her career up to now is marked by the 1994 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum of New York, which was then shown at the New National Gallery in Berlin and Kunsthalle Wien.


National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), 
Jaipur House, India Gate
New Delhi - 110003

National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), 
Jaipur House, India Gate
New Delhi - 110003

Moon Mirror Journey
Germany 2011, 72 minutes
Director and Texts: Rebecca Horn
Music: Hayden Chisholm 

'Moon Mirror Journey' by artist Rebecca Horn sheds new light on her most important works from the last 25 years. The arc spans from “Concert in Reverse” in Münster (1987) through “Concert for Buchenwald” in Weimar (1999) and the large retrospective at the Gropius Bau in Berlin (2006). From a huge archive of film material she has created a poetic and thrilling journey through her life accompanied by the eclectic and enchanting music of Hayden Chisholm who had written music already for many of her installations featured in the film. The artist herself describes the film as a “Sufi Journey”, one which travels from Samarkand to New York. 

Rebecca Horn is regarded as one of the most versatile and creative artists in Germany. From 1989 to 2009, she has been a professor at the Hochschule der Künste (Academy of Fine Arts) in Berlin. A regular participant in the Kassel art exhibition 'documenta' - her first showing of works took place in 1972 - she has long since gained international recognition and acclaim. The high point of her career up to now is marked by the 1994 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum of New York, which was then shown at the New National Gallery in Berlin and Kunsthalle Wien.


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Retrospective of films by Parvez Imam


Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts & Communication invites you to a
Retrospective of Parvez Imam’s films
on Saturday, 7th April, 2012, at our new auditorium.

Schedule
... 
1. Random Voices from Kashmir 
11 min, Hindi (subtitled in English), 2003
Shot as a travelogue in July 2003, the film is a snapshot of Kashmir at the given time.

2. Flight 208
7 min, English, 2007
A dream, a thought, a cutting monologue (or a multi-logue) …whatever it is, it takes one through a most unusual flight.

3. The Waterfall
44 min, English, 2011
A completely different take on the Palestine-Israel conflict... straight from people like you and me!

About the Filmamaker:

Parvez is an independent filmmaker, musician, writer, traveler who has worked on many films of human interest. He experiments with genres and styles to tell his stories with simplicity. His work spans from Documentaries to fiction and from 60 second spots to music videos and experimental films

A doctor by profession, he used to work in Psychiatry before he took to filmmaking in 1995.
He has many films to his credit, including the award winning FLIGHT 208 - an experimental film featuring more than 200 people from across the world in 5 minutes.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO0DAOq4zoc).

More info on the director and his work:
http://www.kalpana.it/eng/film/parvez_imam/parvez3.htm 

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To commemorate the 121st birth anniversary of Dr B.R. Ambedkar, Navayana presents a screening of Anand Patwardhan's film Jai Bhim Comrade


Date: 9 April 2012
Venue: Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
Time: 6.45 p.m.
Duration: 3 hours and 18 minutes 


In 1997, when a statue of Dr B.R. Ambedkar in a Dalit colony in Mumbai was desecrated with a garland of footwear, an angry mob gathered in protest. In no time, a police van drew up a couple of metres from the mob, opened fire, and killed ten persons. Vilas Ghogre, a leftist poet, hung himself in protest.  


Jai Bhim Comrade, shot over 14 years, follows the music and the tradition of Ambedkarite reason that Vilas had been a part of. 

The screening will be followed by an interaction with the director.


Entry free. All are welcome.

JBC is the Winner of the Best Film award at the Mumbai International Film Festival 2011 and Special Jury Award at the National Festival. It also won the best film at Film South Asia, Kathmandu.

Anand Patwardhan is one of India's most well known documentary filmmakers. For more see www.patwardhan.com 


Read Javed Iqbal's review of the film here. http://moonchasing.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/jai-bhim-comrade-where-the-republic-still-lives/

Read Sunalini Kumar's review here. http://kafila.org/2012/03/21/jai-bhim-comrade-patwardhan/

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