FILM Screening "Wall Stories" by Shashwati Talukdar, depicting History of Western Himalayas through art at FICA Reading Room, D-42 Defence Colony > 5:30pm on 27th November 2015

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Time : 5:30 pm  Add to Calendar 27/11/2015 17:30 27/11/2015 19:00 Asia/Kolkata FILM Screening "Wall Stories" by Shashwati Talukdar, depicting History of Western Himalayas through art Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2015/11/film-screening-wall-stories-by.html FICA Reading Room, D-42 Defence Colony, New Delhi 110024 DD/MM/YYYY

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

Venue : FICA Reading Room, D-42 Defence Colony, New Delhi 110024
Venue Info : www.ficart.org | Vadehra Gallery Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Lajpat Nagar(Violet Line)'

Event Description : Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art in collaboration with India Foundation for the Arts presents screening of the film "Wall Stories" by Shashwati Talukdar.

'Wall Stories' is about how a dispossessed saint, a newly minted gentry and generations of painters created a syncretic culture in the Western Himalayas.  Inventive, witty and playful, the film subverts the usual narratives about  society and history in a valley that was on the edge of the Mughal and British Empires.

'Wall Stories' is a pictorial journey through the Garhwal region in the Western Himalayas. Centered around Dehradun between the rivers Ganga and Yamuna, it tells the fascinating story of the history and culture of its people through mural paintings found in the area, and the daily life that is lived around them.

Going from a portrait of Noor Jehan dressed as a Pahari lady, to depictions of the ‘Indar Sabha’ the first Urdu full length play, and one of the richest repositories of  illustrations of the Janmsakhi (the life of Guru Nanak), these paintings from the end of the 17th to the 19th century defy the boundaries of low art and high art, religion and received history.

‘Wall Stories’ uses imaginary conversations, treats the subject of the paintings as living subjects and plays with its subject matter to explore the space and meaning created in the everyday lives of the people who encounter these paintings.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker.

Shashwati Talukdar has an an MFA in Film and Video Arts from Temple University, Philadelphia, USA and an MA in Mass Communications from Jamia Millia Islamia. Shashwati has directed over a dozen short films and videos, which have been screened at venues including the Margaret Mead Festival, Berlin, the Whitney Biennial in New York, Kiasma Museum of Art in Helsinki and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. She has been supported by entities including the Asian Cine Fund in Busan, India Foundation of the Arts, Jerome Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts. She has been awarded the James T. Yee Mentorship Award from NAATA (2002) and the Project Involve Fellowship (2003) from IFP/New York. In addition, Shashwati has taught at NYU, Arcadia and Temple University. She lives between Taiwan and India.

Language: Hindi with English Subtitles

Film Duration : 40 mins. 

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