invites you for an evening of
short documentaries in Mumbai
Date and Time: 4th November, 7 pm onwards
Venue: Art and Charlie, Pali village, Bandra West, Mumbai
Made by graduate students of the Creative Documentary Course at SACAC, the films will be followed by a discussion facilitated by Aanchal Kapur, Founder, Kriti Film Club
Looking through the Fence
Venue: Art and Charlie, Pali village, Bandra West, Mumbai
Made by graduate students of the Creative Documentary Course at SACAC, the films will be followed by a discussion facilitated by Aanchal Kapur, Founder, Kriti Film Club
Looking through the Fence
(10.53 mins. | English, Hindi with English sub. | 2016 | India | Documentary)
by Akanksha Gupta & Vasuki Chandak
by Akanksha Gupta & Vasuki Chandak
About the film: The film is centered around a common gate shared between two colonies. It explores a rather relatable ordinariness that exists around it. However as the stories about this gate unfold the question about what is ordinary and what is not becomes debatable.
About the filmmakers:
Akanksha is a documentary filmmaker who's work revolves around the complexities that a city has to offer. She is drawn to questions about identity, erasure and migration and often tries to address them in her work. After passing out from Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts and Communication in 2017, apart from working on her independent films, Akanksha has been working as a freelance editor. She has worked on ad films, corporate videos and public service films. She believes that a story can be told in many ways and at times in more than one way at once. Recently she also developed a walk ‘Tracing the footsteps of water in Mumbai’, which follows the journey of water through the city from colonial times to the present and, in the process, confronts some pertinent questions regarding the politics of water in a city like Mumbai.
Vasuki is driven by deconstructing the distantly formed assumptions that infect the information irrigation system through direct, palpable interactions with the environment. After studying literature, she spent 2 months at FAMU, Prague and pursued the Creative Documentary Course at SACAC, Delhi. She was a participant at "Footnotes in Documentary Filmmaking"- an exhibition at Goethe Institute, Delhi that offered insights into the process of documentary filmmaking through diverse installations. She has assisted in filming, research and writing for projects like On The Brink, Habitat’s Trust Grant Compendium, UNESCO Let’s Heritage Programme and Animal Planet Ambassadors. Last year, her views on conservation were featured in Women of the Wild - India Chapter. Through her work, she hopes to dissolve definitions by ceaselessly delving into a process of becoming and unbecoming.
After Word
(21 mins. | English, Hindi with English sub. | 2017 | India | Documentary)
by Mallika Visvanathan
by Mallika Visvanathan
About the film: The film is an attempt to explore the world of objects and their relationship to time, value and memory. Set in Daryaganj in Delhi 6, After Word imagines the stories that are hidden or left behind.
About the filmmaker: Mallika Visvanathan is an independent filmmaker and researcher based in Delhi. With a Masters in Arts and Aesthetics from JNU and a diploma in Creative Documentary filmmaking from SACAC, New Delhi, her work attempts to explore the intersection of research and practice. Her interests include moving image and lens-based practices, archives and documentary narratives. She currently works with Critical Collective and has previously worked at Alternative South Asia Photography (2021-22) and Sarai, CSDS (2019-21). She is a recipient of the Inlaks Fine Arts Award (2022).
About the filmmaker: Mallika Visvanathan is an independent filmmaker and researcher based in Delhi. With a Masters in Arts and Aesthetics from JNU and a diploma in Creative Documentary filmmaking from SACAC, New Delhi, her work attempts to explore the intersection of research and practice. Her interests include moving image and lens-based practices, archives and documentary narratives. She currently works with Critical Collective and has previously worked at Alternative South Asia Photography (2021-22) and Sarai, CSDS (2019-21). She is a recipient of the Inlaks Fine Arts Award (2022).
Maadhyam
(22 mins. | 2015 | India | Documentary)
by Daksh Punj
by Daksh Punj
About the film: This is an observational film that explores the journey of waste through a Kabadiwala while looking at the contrast between the neighborhood where he lives and the neighborhood where he works. It also looks at the process and scale of waste collection, hence reflecting on the range and plethora of products that surround us.
We came here to make God
(23 mins. | 2019 | India | Documentary)
by Debankon Singh Solanky
by Debankon Singh Solanky
About the film: A tent is set up far away from home for its inhabitants, artisans. They bring with them bundles of clothes, tools, and their desires. While the image of God takes shape here, things are cracking at the seams elsewhere.
About the filmmaker: Debankon Singh Solanky (1991) is an Indian filmmaker. He shot the short films 27 and The Crow, The Swan, The Snake and the feature film Ayena.
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