Osian's Cinefan 2007 - IBM2, Conferences, Auction, Exhibitions, Panel Discussions, Talent Campus - 20th to 29th July, 2007

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• Exhibitions from the Osian’s Archive as part of IBM2 Infrastructure Building For Minds & Markets at Siri Fort Auditorium
  
• India’s first Exhibition of World Magic Memorabilia - Magic posters from the Popular Culture Archives are rare vintage works, still in excellent condition. They show escape artist Harry Houdini performing a water torture escape; magician Horace Goldin rescuing a young maiden from an infidel as a ‘Tiger God’ prowls within his cage; the magic trio Le Roy, Talma and Bosco using a hot air balloon as a vehicle and so on.
• Mr. Neville Tuli, who helms Osian’s curations, says, “much of our art has been inspired by an imaginary world. India with its great tradition of magic, myth, spirituality, religion and superstition, all merging into a respect for fantasy and the supernatural, has unfortunately, lost the magical inspirational energy so easily derived from these worlds. Perhaps these exhibits will bring alive the fantasy and childlike wonder within us all.”
• Japnese Posters of World Cinema - This exhibition has one of the world’s finest collections of Japanese film poster art. Unique Oriental aesthetics illustrating the classics of world cinema. Japanese sensibilities have an intrinsically traditional and classical streak, and the vertical scripting style influenced artwork design in ways that make them original. The unusual, long and narrow format of a selection of the Japanese posters of European films is perhaps an outcome of an original western poster iconography being reworked to accommodate the Japanese textual characters – as in the posters of La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960) and Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968). There are Japanese poster designs of Clint Eastwood and Marlon Brando films, European New Wave classics by Agnes Varda, Francois Truffaut and Alain Resnais and of home-grown Japanese epics (Mizoguchi’s Crucified Lovers, 1953 and Ugetsu), as well as a glimpse of the Polish poster art of Japanese cinema.
• Rare Sci-Fi and Horror Film Posters - This exhibition is a curious mix of posters from horrific alien invader B-movies like The Brain-Eaters (1958) to outlandish comedies like Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953). George Lucas’ Star Wars series merge the Western / Cowboy genre with the Sci-fi while Time Machine (1960) stands for the elegant sub-set of the serious visionaries. Most of the posters belong to the ‘Golden Age’ of American Sci-fi / Horror films – the 1950s and 60s. With their outré designs and eye-popping illustrations, they explain why the Sci-fi/horror genre has been a favourite with poster collectors.
• The Divas of Holly–Bollywood - The female icons of world cinema have a special focus: Marilyn Monroe in Niagara (1953), The Seven Year Itch (1955) and Some Like it Hot (1959); Brigette Bardot in Jean Luc Godard’s Le Mepris (1963); Elizabeth Taylor in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) and Cleopatra (1963), Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face (1957) and Merle Oberon in Scarlet Pimpernel (1934). Alongside, are Indian icons too: Nargis in Shree 420 (1955), Meena Kumari in Benezir (1964), Nutan in Bandini (1963), Madhubala in Mughal-E- Azam (1960) and Barsaat Ki Raat (1960). The magic of these actresses has been captured beautifully in rare and old black and white photographs.
• The exhibition also showcases film stills from the Osian’s Cinema Archives. Hand-painted photographic stills from Sohrab Modi’s films Jhansi Ki Rani and Mirza Ghalib, Shyam Benegal’s Junoon, Manoj Kumar's Kranti and Ketan Mehta’s The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey.
  
• The magic and excitement of these ten days of 9th Osian’s Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema, will extend into a year long festival at the Osianama once it comes into being. The Osianama is an integrated arts, cinema resource and entertainment centre as well as a museum that is being built by Osian’s in Mumbai. It is being designed to be a permanent unconventional space in time, transcendent in both form and content. It will be a space for the coming together of people, of the popular, fine, cinematic and heritage arts and it will be space that places the arts at the heart of its activities. Osianama will be accessible to all to come, learn, appreciate, enjoy, research and interact.
• India in the making: a historical epic at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre - A Historical Epic II: 1850 – 1880s, that focuses on the specific period between1850-60, and lays special emphasis on the 1857 Uprising in India. The exhibition comprises photographs, chromolithographs, photographic stills, hand-painted photographic stills. Osian's Connoisseurs archive & library Collection Exhibition - 18th to 26th July, 2007

• IBM2 ( Seminars, Conferences & Panel Discussions ) at Siri Fort Auditorium : Within the framework of IBM2 (Infrastructure Building for Minds and Markets), conceived as a stepping stone to the programming needs of Osianama, a number of panel discussions will be held with directors, festival directors, historians and critics that echo the various sections of the festival, including one on cinematography.
• Seminars, Conferences & Panel Discussions Listed Below :
  
• International Conference on the Origins of Cinema in Asia : A Conference on the Origins of Cinema in Asia will discuss how cinema arrived in different Asian countries, and the issues that surrounded its growth. The subject of Asia’s early cinema is significant when seen in the light of the region’s evolving identity.
• Saturday, 21 July 2007 at Siri Fort Auditorium 3 ( 9:30 am - 13:30 ) - Session 1 & 2 of the Origins of Cinema in Asia
• Saturday, 21 July 2007 at Siri Fort Auditorium 4 ( 14:30 ) - IBM2: Focus on Japan
• Sunday, 22 July 2007 at Siri Fort Auditorium 4 ( 9:30 am - 13:30 ) - Session 3 & 4 of the Origins of Cinema in Asia
• Monday, 23 July 2007 at Siri Fort Auditorium 4 ( 13:30 to 15:00 ) - Why Film Festivals?
• Monday, 23 July 2007 at Siri Fort Auditorium 3 ( 15:15 ) - IBM2: Osian's Cinefan - Annual Lecture - by Tadao Sato
• Monday, 23rd July at Siri Fort Auditorium 3 (12:00 to 13:30) : Facts & Interpretation : Wars of Independence
  
• Tuesday, 24 July 2007 at Siri Fort Auditorium 4 ( 11:30 ) - IBM2 : Film Cooperative
• Tuesday, 24th July 2007 at Siri Fort Auditorium 3 ( 12:00 ) - New Focus and Subjects in Arab Cinema
• Wednesday, 25 July 2007 at Siri Fort Auditorium 4 ( 14:00 ) - IBM2: Small Steps - Short Films' Screening
• Wednesday, 25 July 2007 at Siri Fort Auditorium 4 ( 15:40 ) - IBM2: Launch of Osian's Film Development Fund
• Wednesday, 25th July 2007 at Siri Fort Auditorium 4 ( starts at 16:00 ) - The Big Leap: Making Your First Feature
• Thursday, 26 July 2007 at Siri Fort Auditorium 3 ( 14:00 ) - IBM2: Beneath Surface - Cinematography and Time ( The Art of Cinematography )
  
• Independent Film-making in S.E. Asia
  
• Friday, 27 July 2007 at Siri Fort Auditorium 3 ( starts at 14:00 ) - 1955 : Cinema & Nation
  
• Saturday, 28 July 2007 at Siri Fort Auditorium 4 ( 11:30 - 13:30 ) - The Osianama - Envisioning a Cultural Centre ( Building The Osianama )
• Saturday, 28 July 2007 at Siri Fort Auditorium 4 ( 16:30 to 18:00 ) - Radical Political Cinema
  
• Talent Campus at Siri Fort Auditorium : Talent Campus India for young and aspiring filmmakers, forges ahead, Osian’s Cinefan will host its 4th edition this year.
• It will be held from 22 to 27 July at the Siri Fort Auditoria Complex, New Delhi, concurrently with the 9th Osian’s Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema in association with the Government of Delhi.
• Young filmmakers from India and South Asia will be invited to interact with renowned filmmakers and film professionals from India and abroad. The aim of the workshop is to provide up-and-coming filmmakers a forum for learning and sharing the process of filmmaking. Participants will benefit not only from the calibre and experience of the professionals involved, but also from the exchange of ideas. Topics of discussion will range from direction, scriptwriting, Master Class in Cinematography, co-production possibilities and understanding key issues such as audience and genre.
• Sunday, 22 July 2007 17:00 Alliançe Française de Delhi Talent Campus: Welcome Address, Film screenings etc..
• Sunday, 22 July 2007 15:00 Siri Fort 4 Talent Campus
• Monday, 23 July 2007 10:00 Siri Fort 4 Talent Campus (10:00 to 11:30)
• Monday, 23 July 2007 15:30 Siri Fort 4 Talent Campus (15:30 to 17:30)
• Tuesday, 24 July 2007 9:30 Siri Fort 4 Talent Campus (09:30 to 11:00)
• Tuesday, 24 July 2007 14:00 Siri Fort 4 Talent Campus (14:00 to 15:30)
• Tuesday, 24 July 2007 16:00 Siri Fort 4 Talent Campus (16:00 to 18:00)
• Wednesday, 25 July 2007 10:00 Siri Fort 4 Talent Campus
• Thursday, 26 July 2007 10:00 Siri Fort 4 Talent Campus
• Friday, 27 July 2007 10:00 Siri Fort 4 Talent Campus
• Friday, 27 July 2007 16:30 Siri Fort 4 Talent Campus
  
• Friday, 27 July 2007 14:00 Siri Fort 3 Talent Campus (14:00 to 16:00)
  

• Auction at Alliance Francaise : An Auction of Popular Culture and Film Memorabilia along with a number of exhibitions, the Talent Campus for budding young filmmakers from South Asia will be held. 17th to 26th JULY 2007 at GALLERIE ROMAIN ROLLAND, ALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE DELHI, LODHI ESTATE, NEW DELHI – 11 00 03
• Click here to View the Auction Highlights Online
• Private Previews & Registration - 18th - 25th July 2007
• Contact : Supriya Chawla, 91-11-41743166, supriya@osians.com

• Osian’s Lifetime Achievement Award : Award for distinguished contribution to writing on cinema – perhaps the only Festival in the world that recognises the role of the scriptwriter and the critic in the creation and the promotion of films – will be presented. This year, the award goes to renowned writer and scholar from Japan, Tadao Sato.

• Main Event : Osian's Cinefan - 9th Festival of Asian & Arab Cinema - 20th to 29th July, 2007