SAVAC Sponsored presentation at 19th Annual Images Festival

13-22 April, 2006

The 19th Annual Images Festival is fast approaching, and this year's programming includes some great creative South Asian artists. You can find out more about the following artists at www.imagesfestival.com, but here is a list of the works, with a brief synopsis of each.

 

Kolkata, Mark LaPore

Program 1: Retrospective. Sunday 16 April, 7:00pm

Program 2: New Genres New Forms. Monday 17 April, 7:00pm

 

EXPERIMENTA India at the Images Festival

Curated by Shai Heredia
Begun in Bombay in 2003, EXPERIMENTA is the first festival for experimental film and video in India. EXPERIMENTA serves as a forum for both classic and contemporary experimental films from around the world and is also a vital showcase for relatively unknown Indian film artists. The EXPERIMENTA at Images trace a history of Indian personal and experimental film, beyond Bollywood and the industrial system, and introduce a non-Western perspective on artists' film as an alternative to the dominant US and Eurocentric histories.

 

Program 1: Retrospective

Trip

Pramod Pati, 1970. 4min. 35mm

 

Abid

Pramod Pati, 1972. 5min. 35mm

 

Claxplosion

Pramod Pati, 1968. 2min. 35mm

And I Make Short Films

SNS Sastry, 1968. 16min. 35mm

Explorer

Pramod Prati, 1970. 4min. 35mm

Child on a Chess Board

Vijay B. Chandra, 1979. 8min. 35mm

 

Followed by: Selections from MONITOR, South Asian Visual Artists Collective's (SAVAC) annual showcase of short film and video works by South Asian artists.

Untitled Displacement Series #2 (Pavitra Wickramasinghe Canada 1min. video 2003)
16mm journey (Darshana Vora UK 1min. video 2005)
Death in the Garden of Paradise (Nurjahan Akhlaq Canada/Pakistan 22min. video 2004)
Solid Objects (Darshana Vora UK 2min. video 2005)
THIS or THAT? Or NEITHER? (Kriti Arora France 5min. video 2005)
Happily Never After (Jaishri Abichandani USA 2min. video 2005).

Nurjahan Akhlaq is available for interviews during the festival.

 

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Program 2: New Genres New Forms

A Short Season (Ashim Ahluwalia 30min. 16mm 2000)

 

Kshya Tra Gya (Amit Dutta 22min. 35mm 2004)

 

BOMgAY (Riyad Wadia 12min. video 1996)

 

Antaral/Endnote (Ashish Avikunthak 17min. 16mm 2005)

 

 

International Shorts Program 3: On Earth,  As It Is

Mark LaPore's 35mm film Kolkata is part of the International Shorts Program 3: On Earth, As It Is. The program runs on Saturday April 15, at 7:00pm, at the Workman Theatre (1001 Queen St. West). Kolkata presents a portrait of Calcutta, with its ebb and flow reflecting the state of perpetual transformation in the city.