MONITOR 7: New South Asian Short Film + Video
Poster for Monitor 7: New South Asian Short Film + Video. Poster image: Smriti Mehra and Tahireh Lal. Graphic design: Sameer Farooq, New Ink.
24 March, 2011, 7:30pm
Innis Town Hall. 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto
Programmed by Ayesha Hameed
SAVAC Members: Free / Non-members: $10 / Students, with id: $5
Monitor 7: New South Asian Short Film and Video is an annual short film and video-screening program that showcases new and innovative work by South Asians from Canada and around the world. Monitor a unique platform for independent work that brings together humorous, tongue-and-cheek narratives as well as films and videos that explore the slippage of memory and performance of loss in personal and poetic ways. Monitor 7 brings together 12 new works by artists from Bangladesh, Canada, India, Pakistan, UK and USA, who explore the a wide range of ideas and concerns shaping the global South Asian experience today.
Monitor 7 Jury: Erik Martinson, Srimoyee Mitra, Pablo de Ocampo, Ananya Ohri, Dinesh Sachdev
Ayesha Hameed is a performance and video artist and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Press coverage
- RM Vaughan, "South Asian video festival explores identity with flashes of humour, terror and anxiety," The Globe and Mail online<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/video/south-asian-video-festival-explores-identity-with-flashes-of-humour-terror-and-anxiety/article1946485/>
- Wojtek Gwiazda, "Interview with Ayesha Hameed," Masala Canada, RCI, 41:35, Ep March 19 2011 <http://www.rcinet.ca/english/program/masala-canada/home/>
- Amanjeet K Chauhan, "Short films @ Monitor 7, presented by SAVAC," galleryakc. <http://galleryakc.com/2011/03/21/monitor-7-savac/>
- "Bangladeshi filmmaker selected for Monitor 7." New Age Bangladesh. http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/timeout/12172.html>
- Smriti Mehra and Tahireh Lal showcase their film at Monitor 7 in Toronto, Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology
<http://srishti.ac.in/content/smriti-mehra-and-tahireh-lal-showcase-their-film-monitor-7-toronto> - An interview with Ayesha Hameed, MyBindi.com<http://www.mybindi.com/lifestyles/ArticleDetailUI.aspx?RefId=1485>
Tour
- MONITOR 7 was screened at the Niagara Artists Centre, in October 2011.
