LILA Foundation presents PART 1 of 'When the Bird Became a Wave…A Journey with Kumar Shahani' documentary film screening followed by a conversation at Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 7pm on 4th May 2015
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LILA Foundation presents PART 1 of 'When the Bird Became a Wave…A Journey with Kumar Shahani' documentary film screening followed by a conversation
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Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Venue : Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
Parking : Gate No. 1, 2 & 3 (Cars), Gate No. 2 (Bikes & Bicycles)
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Stations :
'Jor Bagh(Yellow Line)Exit Gate-1' - Walk Direction
'Khan Market(Violet Line)'
Area : Lodhi Road Area Events
Event Description : LILA Foundation for Translocal Initiatives in collaboration with the Dept of Communication, SNU, present "Alankar: An Aesthetician’s Trail", 2 days of Film Screenings and Conversations on the Aesthete’s Quest.
PART 1 at IHC : 'When the Bird Became a Wave…A Journey with Kumar Shahani' documentary film screening.
Direction: MR Rajan| 72 min | 2014
Conversation: Kumar Shahani and MR Rajan in conversation with 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.
Alankar : An Aesthetician’s Trail" 2 days of Film Screenings and Conversations on the Aesthete’s Quest in collaboration with Department of Communication, SNU
Background : Alankar : An Aesthetician’s Trail, a unique programme of screenings and conversations, evokes ‘Alankar’, the figure for ‘ornamentation’ in Indian aesthetics. Alankar thus attempts here to capture the spirit of Kumar Shahani’s continuous engagement with the experience and ideal of the beautiful. MR Rajan, Shahani’s student and noted filmmaker, shows in his work, a similar endeavour to understand and create art and life in subtle terms. And Sadanand Menon has been exploring the charged space linking politics and culture for several decades through his work in media, pedagogy and activism. Alankar thus bears witness to the difficult, and therefore deeply political acts of these cultural visionaries to inquire about the beautiful in the times of the obvious, even the gross.
Related Events : Movies | Talks
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Venue : Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
Parking : Gate No. 1, 2 & 3 (Cars), Gate No. 2 (Bikes & Bicycles)
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Stations :
'Jor Bagh(Yellow Line)Exit Gate-1' - Walk Direction
'Khan Market(Violet Line)'
Area : Lodhi Road Area Events
Event Description : LILA Foundation for Translocal Initiatives in collaboration with the Dept of Communication, SNU, present "Alankar: An Aesthetician’s Trail", 2 days of Film Screenings and Conversations on the Aesthete’s Quest.
PART 1 at IHC : 'When the Bird Became a Wave…A Journey with Kumar Shahani' documentary film screening.
Direction: MR Rajan| 72 min | 2014
Conversation: Kumar Shahani and MR Rajan in conversation with 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.
Alankar : An Aesthetician’s Trail" 2 days of Film Screenings and Conversations on the Aesthete’s Quest in collaboration with Department of Communication, SNU
Background : Alankar : An Aesthetician’s Trail, a unique programme of screenings and conversations, evokes ‘Alankar’, the figure for ‘ornamentation’ in Indian aesthetics. Alankar thus attempts here to capture the spirit of Kumar Shahani’s continuous engagement with the experience and ideal of the beautiful. MR Rajan, Shahani’s student and noted filmmaker, shows in his work, a similar endeavour to understand and create art and life in subtle terms. And Sadanand Menon has been exploring the charged space linking politics and culture for several decades through his work in media, pedagogy and activism. Alankar thus bears witness to the difficult, and therefore deeply political acts of these cultural visionaries to inquire about the beautiful in the times of the obvious, even the gross.
Related Events : Movies | Talks
LILA Foundation presents PART 1 of 'When the Bird Became a Wave…A Journey with Kumar Shahani' documentary film screening followed by a conversation at Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 7pm on 4th May 2015
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