EXHIBITION "Footnotes on Documentary Practice : The beginnings of enquiry" at Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg > 30th & 31st August 2017

Time : 11:00 am

Entry : Free


Venue : Siddhartha Hall, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001

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Event Description : EXHIBITION "Footnotes on Documentary Practice : The beginnings of enquiry"

The exhibition at Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan with the students of the Creative
Documentary Course (CDC) is a proposal for Unravelling, Gleaning and Fragmenting as modes of enquiry into documentary film. Footnotes on Documentary Practice invites conversations and questions around seeing, framing, thinking and listening to the world and to ourselves, as documentary practitioners. The exhibition seeks to find ways to articulate, through multiple forms and experiments, the ephemeral processes of making and witnessing in a landscape of wildly fluctuating truths. Do our responses require a new set of ethics as we manoeuvre this complex terrain? And what of our increasingly tenuous relationship to questions around reality and representations of it?
The students at CDC have been through a journey of reflection and making for several months as part of their course. Hence the processes leading up to the exhibition will be within frames of footnotes, working notes, annotations and drafts. We are looking for forms for tentativeness, restless queries, unfinished rummaging and incomplete but significant discoveries. The expectations from documentary tropes are shifting and there are few footholds for reinventing and unlearning. The exhibition will attempt to inhabit this place of difficulty and simultaneously a possible freedom, within this shift.

Participating Students
Abhinava Bhattacharyya | Akanksha Gupta | Anuradha Bansal | Aparna Bansal | Arunima Tenzin Tara | Aviva Dharmaraj | Gagandeep Singh | Mallika Visvanathan | Sushil Kumar Pandey | Vasuki Chandak

Exhibition Concept and Design: Priya Sen, in collaboration with the students and faculty of CDC.

Priya Sen is a filmmaker who works across video, installation and sound.

CDC Faculty
Sameera Jain, Course Director: Sameera is a director and editor with over 30 years of experience.
She has been mentoring film students and filmmakers on diverse platforms and has taught at several film institutions, including her alma mater, the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII). In 2013, she initiated the Creative Documentary Course at Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts & Communication.

Ruchika Negi, Core Faculty: Ruchika is a filmmaker and visual artist and has been teaching in the Creative Documentary Course since 2015. Some of her films and installation works include, Every Time You Tell A Story, Cracks I Seldom Reveal, Rain Is For Free, among others.

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