"Making Documentaries in Mumbai" A Brownbag with Madhusree Dutta
Monday April 9
12 - 2 pm, 80 Fifth Ave, Rm 529
Screening ‘7 Islands and a Metro’
Monday April 9
Wollman Hall, 6:30 - 9:00 pm
Madhusree Dutta has been making non-fiction films since 1993 on subjects related to gender, identity, and marginalization. Her films have been at national and international film festivals and won awards. Dutta is also executive director of Majlis, a center in India that campaigns for cultural literacy, produces films and multidisciplinary art works, and is compiling a current affairs video archive.
7 Island and a Metro (2006)
To the seven goddesses who reign over Bom Bahia / Bombay / Mumbai.
The multilingual Bombay, the Bombay of closed mills, of popular culture, sprawling slums and real estate onslaughts, the metropolis of numerous ghettos, the El Dorado. A tale of the city through a tapestry of fiction, cinema vérité, art objects, found footage, sound installation and literary texts. The narrative is structured around imaginary debates between Ismat Chugtai and Sadat Hasan Manto over the art of chronicling these multi-layered overlapping cities. Shot mainly during the monsoon the film portrays some extremely beautiful yet ruthlessly violent features of Bombay which, generally, are not part of the popular narratives.
http://www.newschool.edu/gf/centers/southasia/index.htm
Monday April 9
12 - 2 pm, 80 Fifth Ave, Rm 529
Screening ‘7 Islands and a Metro’
Monday April 9
Wollman Hall, 6:30 - 9:00 pm
Madhusree Dutta has been making non-fiction films since 1993 on subjects related to gender, identity, and marginalization. Her films have been at national and international film festivals and won awards. Dutta is also executive director of Majlis, a center in India that campaigns for cultural literacy, produces films and multidisciplinary art works, and is compiling a current affairs video archive.
7 Island and a Metro (2006)
To the seven goddesses who reign over Bom Bahia / Bombay / Mumbai.
The multilingual Bombay, the Bombay of closed mills, of popular culture, sprawling slums and real estate onslaughts, the metropolis of numerous ghettos, the El Dorado. A tale of the city through a tapestry of fiction, cinema vérité, art objects, found footage, sound installation and literary texts. The narrative is structured around imaginary debates between Ismat Chugtai and Sadat Hasan Manto over the art of chronicling these multi-layered overlapping cities. Shot mainly during the monsoon the film portrays some extremely beautiful yet ruthlessly violent features of Bombay which, generally, are not part of the popular narratives.
http://www.newschool.edu/gf/centers/southasia/index.htm
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