FILM "In My Mother’s House" By Lina Fruzzetti & Ákos Östör at School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road > 6pm on 7th April 2016

Time : 6:00 pm Add to Calendar 07/04/2016 18:00 07/04/2016 19:30 Asia/Kolkata FILM "In My Mother’s House" By Lina Fruzzetti & Ákos Östör Event Page : http://www.delhievents.com/2016/04/film-in-my-mothers-house-by-lina.html School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi - 110067 DD/MM/YYYY

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

Venue : School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi - 110067
Venue Info : www.jnu.ac.in | SAA Map
Nearest Metro Stations - 'Hauz Khas(Yellow Line)' &  'Delhi Aerocity(Orange Line)'

Event Description : DOCUMENTARY FILM : School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University invites you to a screening of "In My Mother’s House" A Film By Lina Fruzzetti and Ákos Östör

About the Film: In My Mother's House is a film about the life of an Eritrean woman, spanning four continents and three colonial rules, over eight decades, covering her youth during Italian colonial rule, the annexation of Eritrea by Ethiopia, migration to the Sudan, and finally her return home to a free Eritrea. Her life experiences and widely dispersed family are placed into the context of global events and changes.

About the Filmmakers: 

Lina Fruzzetti joined the Anthropology Department at Brown University in 1975. She holds several national and international appointments and has taught at the Universities of Khartoum, Dar es Salaam, University of Helsinki, ISCTE (Lisbon), and IIT Gandinagar (Ahmedabad, India.) She directs the South Asia Studies undergraduate major. She is serving (or has served) on numerous university governance committees, and national committees: Fulbright, ACLS, Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Her primary focus in social anthropology is kinship, ritual and the construction of gender; race and ethnic relations, as well as ethnographic film. She conducts research in two world regions, India and North East Africa.

Ákos Östör is among other things, an anthropologist and a filmmaker. Educated in Hungary, Australia, and the USA, he carried out fieldwork and documentary filming in India (West Bengal and Varanasi), Sudan, Tanzania, Italy and Eritrea. He taught at universities in the USA, Portugal, Sudan, India and Tanzania, and was a fellow at research institutes in Hungary, Australia, India and the USA. Currently an Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Film Studies at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. His latest co-productions, “Singing Pictures” and “Songs of a Sorrowful Man,” are about the changing practices of traditional scroll painter/singers in a Bengali village near Calcutta.

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