MOVIE "Cities of Sleep" documentary film screening at Italian Embassy Cultural Institute, 50-E, Chandragupta Marg, Chanakyapuri > 6:30pm on 10th February 2016
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MOVIE "Cities of Sleep" documentary film screening
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Italian Embassy Cultural Institute, 50-E, Chandragupta Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi - 110021
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)
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Venue : Italian Embassy Cultural Institute, 50-E, Chandragupta Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi - 110021
Landmark : Entry from Nyaya Marg
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Area : Chanakyapuri Events
Event Description : "Cities of Sleep" documentary film screening.
‘Cities of Sleep’ takes us into a heady world of insurgent sleepers' communities as well as the sleep entrepreneurs in Delhi where just securing a safe sleeping spot often becomes a question of life and death for a large number of people.
The film trails the lives of two individuals, Shakeel and Ranjeet. Shakeel, a renegade homeless sleeper has for the last 7 years slept in a diverse range of improvised places like subways, under park benches, parking lots, abandoned cars and lately, at areas controlled by the sleep market. The film follows his attempts to secure a safe sleeping space just around the time the infamous winter rains of Delhi are due.
Ranjeet runs the ‘sleep-cinema’ community in Loha Pul in Delhi, a huge double-storey iron bridge straddling the banks of the river Yamuna. A thin strip of land under Loha Pul houses shanty cinemas where over 400 odd homeless come and sleep through the day for a nominal price. The flooding of the river Yamuna poses a threat to the people sleeping there every monsoon.
The film looks at not only the tremendous social and political pressure that sleep exerts on the homeless in the city but is also a philosophical exploration of sleep at large.
Shaunak Sen is a filmmaker, video artist and scholar based in Delhi. ‘Cities of Sleep’ is his first feature length documentary, funded by the Films Division of India. He has edited various other documentary and experimental fiction/non-fiction films including ‘Squad’s Fall Guys’ (2013), ‘Old Town’ (2013) and ‘T&Lily’ (2014).
Trailer : youtu.be/rXzElV75x08
Website: citiesofsleep.com
Film Duration : 1 hour 17 mins
Q&A after the screening with the film's Director - Shaunak Sen and Associate Director - Aman Mann.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)
Note : For security reasons please show your valid Photo Identity Card.
Venue : Italian Embassy Cultural Institute, 50-E, Chandragupta Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi - 110021
Landmark : Entry from Nyaya Marg
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Race Course(Yellow Line)'
Area : Chanakyapuri Events
Event Description : "Cities of Sleep" documentary film screening.
‘Cities of Sleep’ takes us into a heady world of insurgent sleepers' communities as well as the sleep entrepreneurs in Delhi where just securing a safe sleeping spot often becomes a question of life and death for a large number of people.
The film trails the lives of two individuals, Shakeel and Ranjeet. Shakeel, a renegade homeless sleeper has for the last 7 years slept in a diverse range of improvised places like subways, under park benches, parking lots, abandoned cars and lately, at areas controlled by the sleep market. The film follows his attempts to secure a safe sleeping space just around the time the infamous winter rains of Delhi are due.
Ranjeet runs the ‘sleep-cinema’ community in Loha Pul in Delhi, a huge double-storey iron bridge straddling the banks of the river Yamuna. A thin strip of land under Loha Pul houses shanty cinemas where over 400 odd homeless come and sleep through the day for a nominal price. The flooding of the river Yamuna poses a threat to the people sleeping there every monsoon.
The film looks at not only the tremendous social and political pressure that sleep exerts on the homeless in the city but is also a philosophical exploration of sleep at large.
Shaunak Sen is a filmmaker, video artist and scholar based in Delhi. ‘Cities of Sleep’ is his first feature length documentary, funded by the Films Division of India. He has edited various other documentary and experimental fiction/non-fiction films including ‘Squad’s Fall Guys’ (2013), ‘Old Town’ (2013) and ‘T&Lily’ (2014).
Trailer : youtu.be/rXzElV75x08
Website: citiesofsleep.com
Film Duration : 1 hour 17 mins
Q&A after the screening with the film's Director - Shaunak Sen and Associate Director - Aman Mann.
Related Links : Movies | Talks
MOVIE "Cities of Sleep" documentary film screening at Italian Embassy Cultural Institute, 50-E, Chandragupta Marg, Chanakyapuri > 6:30pm on 10th February 2016
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