LILA Foundation presents 'When the Bird Became a Wave…A Journey with Kumar Shahani' documentary film screening followed by a conversation at UChicago Center, DLF Capitol Point, Baba Kharak Singh Marg > 5:30pm on 1st May 2015

Time : 5:30 pm Add to Calendar 01-05-2015 17:30:00 01-05-2015 19:00:00 68 LILA Foundation presents 'When the Bird Became a Wave…A Journey with Kumar Shahani' documentary film screening followed by a conversation Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2015/04/lila-foundation-presents-when-bird.html UChicago Center, DLF Capitol Point, Baba Kharak Singh Marg, New Delhi -110001 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Venue : UChicago Center, DLF Capitol Point, Baba Kharak Singh Marg, New Delhi -110001
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Event Description : LILA Foundation for Translocal Initiatives presents 'When the Bird Became a Wave…A Journey with Kumar Shahani' documentary film screening. 
Direction: MR Rajan| 72 min | 2014
The screening will be followed by a Question and Answer session with Kumar Shahani and MR Rajan, moderated by Rizio Yohannan Raj.

MR Rajan’s docu-film on noted filmmaker Kumar Shahani, When the Bird Became a Wave… is a beautiful tribute to the great director by a sensitive artist. Rajan has interpreted Shahani’s life, work and words with great understanding and imagination. The film is a journey with Shahani across Kerala, which was recorded through a span of four years, from 2010. Kumar discusses history, cinema, music, performing arts, politics, the growth of the market, traditional trade relationships across the country and the globe. He examines the human survival through the eyes of philosophy. Knowledge against the military-industrial complex, creativity against oppressive systems and establishments — Kumar’s eternal concern continues as a debate and an argument throughout the film. The film has been recorded and treated in a very personal style. Translating Shahani’s exquisite aesthetic for the cinematic medium, Rajan has at once enriched it with the lucidity of moving images and sounds, and the gravity of a serious reflection. It speaks to us without speaking, and keeps its splendid silence through the words it employs.

Kumar Shahani is one of the pioneers of the New Indian Cinema. He is best known for his works in parallel cinema, Maya Darpan (1972), Khayal Gatha (1989),Kasba (1990). He is frequently grouped by critics and film enthusiasts alongside Pier Paolo Pasolini, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Jacques Rivette.

MR Rajan is a documentary filmmaker of repute. His oeuvre focuses on the history, tradition and future of the performance arts in Kerala. Nottam (1999) andMinukku (2006) received the National Film Award for Best Biographical Documentary and the Best Documentary film award from the IDPA.

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