[Reader-list] Fwd: [vikalpmum] WELCOME TO THE 58TH EDITION OF “THE fd ZONE” ! ‘OF WATCHING AND BEING WATCHED’

[shaina a]

For those in Bombay, FYI. These films will screen tomorrow, Saturday 31,
august, 2013.

best,
shaina


WELCOME TO THE 58TH EDITION OF “THE fd ZONE” !

*‘OF WATCHING AND BEING WATCHED’*


Curator's note:

The word surveillance comes from a French phrase for "watching over" ("sur"
means "from above" and "veiller" means "to watch")


Surveillance is the monitoring of the behavior, activities, or other
changing information, usually of people for the purpose of influencing,
managing, directing, or protecting them. This can include observation from
a distance by means of electronic equipment (CCTV cameras), or interception
of electronically transmitted information (such as Internet traffic or
phone calls); and it can refer to simple, relatively no- or low-technology
methods such as human intelligence agents and postal interception.
(Courtesy:Wikipedia)


The proliferation in the use of cameras for surveillance purposes has
introduced severe concerns including privacy. Everyone is constantly being
watched on the roads, offices, supermarkets, parking lots, airports, or any
other commercial establishment. Let’s not forget, Aadhaar will enable and
support surveillance and tracking whether or not it succeeds in its
declared primary aim of enabling services for the poor. It is noteworthy
that Aadhaar is apparently linked with the National Intelligence Grid
(Natgrid) and the National Population Register. The 2 films in this week’s
program delve into the notion of ‘being watched’, and 'watching' in these
situations. They stage an encounter between such realities and the
"neighbouring" areas of film and documentary.

Two works by CAMP:


*CCTV Social*
2008 /28 minutes
http://www.camputer.org/event.php?id=24

*AL Jaar Qabla Al Daar (The Neighbour before the House)*
2009-2011/ 60 minutes
http://www.camputer.org/event.php?id=98<
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.camputer.org%2Fevent.php%3Fid%3D98&h=PAQFXkASq&s=1
>


*CCTV Social*

*
*In March 2008 Shaina Anand collaborated with Manchester Metropolitan
University and Arndale Shopping Centre to open working CCTV environments to
a general audience. People normally 'enclosed' by these networks came into
the black box of the control rooms to view, observe and debate this
condition, endemic in the UK, where there is one camera for every 6 people.


Manchester's Open Street Surveillance, with its Pan-Tilt-Zoom cameras and
systems wired into the surrounding architecture over a decade ago were
subject to demonstrations, scrutiny and inquiry by 36 participants. These
hour-long sessions became somewhat like a diagnostic clinic, where
symptoms, anxieties and inoculations about 'public health' under
surveillance were meditated upon. The therapy sessions seemed to work both
ways, for the participants as well as the security officers. The film is a
documentation of some moments, from these several hours of curious
encounters.

CCTV Social has been exhibited at Cornerhouse Manchester, Nottingham
Contemporary, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter Oslo and Space Hamilton Seoul. It
will be part of a CAMP exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
in Ocobter 2013.

*The Neighbour Before The House (Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar)*

*
*The material for this film was generated by eight Palestinian families
living in various parts of Jerusalem/Al Quds, a place where the usual sense
of “neighbourhood” is broken by occupation and conflict. It was filmed over
a month in September October 2009, with a PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) CCTV camera
that the residents installed on their own homes (or in the case of evicted
families, on nearby houses), a "tripod made of stones". The commentary you
can hear is of people speaking over the video live, as they watch and move
the camera from inside their homes. Sometimes the voice looks for an image,
at other times image provokes voices, or they separate into distant
landscapes and innermost thoughts. The footage was edited into this film in
2011.

The Neighbour Before the House has been screened at the Al Mamal Foundation
Jerusalem, International Academy of Art Ramallah, Nova Cinema Trondheim,
New Museum New York, Yerba Buena Center for Art San Francisco, Volte
Gallery Mumbai, Experimenter Gallery Kolkata, and the Biennials of Sharjah
and Liverpool.



About CAMP


CAMP is a collaborative studio founded in Bombay in 2007 by Shaina Anand,
Sanjay Bhangar and Ashok Sukumaran. CAMP's artworks and films are
technically intensive and conceptually challenging, and have been exhibited
around the world at major art venues in recent years. From their home base
in Chuim village, CAMP are co-initiators of the online footage archive
http://pad.ma/<
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpad.ma%2F&h=6AQGoDNbD&s=1>,
the new cinema archivehttp://indiancine.ma/<
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Findiancine.ma%2F&h=FAQGGIh3Z&s=1
>,
the Wharfage project on the Indian Ocean, and a constellation of other
projects, events and symposia they host. Their recent feature documentary
>From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf was awarded a jury special mention on its
festival premiere at FID Marseille last month.

Venue:
RR Theatre
10th Floor
Films Division
Pedder Road
Mumbai


Other events


*KASHMIR – BEFORE OUR EYES* across 7 cities
https://www.facebook.com/events/1384431745118663
https://www.facebook.com/groups/kashmir.be


Chennai -- Aug 23 to aug 26
Thrissur -- Aug 29 to 31
Pondicherry -- Sept 2 to Sept 5
Hyderabad -- Sept 7 to Sept 12
Bangalore -- Sept 13 to Sept 15
Pune --- Sept 20 to Sept 22
Delhi --- Sept 27 to Sept 29



regards,

"THE fd ZONE" team


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