Saturday, March 8, 10.00am to 12.00pm, at Open Space
To mark International Women’s Day Open Space invites you to a screening of three documentary films centred around women’s lives in contemporary India. Screenings will be followed by an open forum.
Pedalling to Freedom
30 mins, DVD, 2007
Director: Vijay.S.Jodha
An unusual story which shows how a humble object like a bicycle can also change lives dramatically. The film revisits a unique initiative 15 years later in Pudukkottai, one of India’s poorest districts where mobility of women was seen as an important tool for empowerment and promoting literacy.
To Think Like A Woman
30 mins, DVD, 2006
Director: Arpita Sinha
The film reflects on the numerous silences that shroud the lives of young, educated, ‘independent’, ‘modern’, single women in urban India . Conversations with four such women reveal the inner conflicts, dissonances and a crisis of identity.
A Body That Will Speak
30 mins, DVD, English, 2006
Director: Sukanya Sen, Sukanya Kashyap and Pawas Bisht
A filmmaker, a university student, an entrepreneur and a radio jockey. Women, who feel hungry, eat, grow fat and feel anxious about it. A film about not being perfect. A film about the never ending attempts to make the body "speak for the self in a meaningful and powerful way." A journey to move beyond disorders and discover the real women battling the fantasies around and within them.
Day & Date: Saturday, March 8, 2008
Time: 10.00am to 12.00pm
Venue: Open Space, B-301, 2nd Floor, Kanchanjunga Bldg, Kanchan Lane, Off Law College Road, Near Krishna Dining Hall, Pune 411 048. Tel No: 020 25457371
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008, 4.00pm to 7.00pm, at Open Space
Open Space has been using diverse audio-visual media such as features and documentary films, shorts and PSAs as awareness raising outreach tools through regular screenings, film festivals and moderated discussions. In continuation of its endeavour, Open Space has initiated a monthly lecture series titled, ‘Cinema as Documentation’ which will look at film as a medium of social, economic and historical documentation, while exploring other aspects of the medium such as its art and aesthetics. Each lecture will be followed by a film screening the next day.
‘The Filming of a Metropolis’, the first lecture in the series, will discuss history as a series of parallel narratives recorded through the medium of cinema, through the point of view of some landmark filmmakers of the 20th century. Through audio-visual clips the lecture will guide the viewer to look at a great city at a particular period in history through the cinematic language of non-linearity which transforms the subject, i.e the city into the central character of the film.
The lecture will be facilitated by Ajit Duara, film critic, film script-writer and teacher of film studies who divides his time between Pune and Mumbai. He has been writing since 1984 and teaching since 1990. He completed his graduation in English (Hons) from St. Stephens College, Delhi, and took an M.F.A. in Film scholarship/Criticism from Columbia University, New York City.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 4.30pm to 6.30pm, at Open Space
Screening of the feature film, Hiroshima Mon Amour (Dir: Alain Resnais). Hiroshima Mon Amour tells the story of a French actress who performs the role of a nurse in a film being shot in post-war Hiroshima. There she meets a Japanese man. Using flashbacks intercut into this present day love story, the woman tells of her experiences during the Second World War in France during the German occupation, and the consequences when the war came to an end. The film combines fiction and documentary.
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