Persistence Resistance-2010 to commence on Feb 25
Persistence Resistance 2010 brings together films that explore the themes of boundaries that the political documentary tries to tackle through its cinematic representation.
MAGIC LANTERN Foundation in collaboration with India International Centre is going to host -Persistence Resistance 2010 .The festival brings the audiences and matters of films, a little closer together in a common space.
In this edition, the Fest aims to explore the diversity of the documentary form. The expanding content and aesthetics of independent films fuels the concept of such events. The Fest tries to create multifaceted spaces for viewing, interaction and discussion that are as diverse and rich as the political complexity of the content and aesthetics that infuse the works.
The festival consciously uses the term 'political films' and aims to present a wide range of genre of the documentary, from experimental to creative to narrative to hybrid and claims for itself the space of the 'political’. The festival will screen a large number of films using multiple screening and viewing practices: films will be screened in two auditoria, in the outdoors, in simulated video parlours, at a multi-hub video library, and as installation.
The Two- day festival has also organised seminars .Daily seminars will engage with the aesthetics and politics of the documentary form. A collection of outstanding films will be screened. The festival is examining the notion of boundaries by bringing together films that lie on borderlines, constantly negotiating between the centre and the periphery. The films shift between questions of territorial, social, historical and personal identities, observing capturing, reflecting and finding sometimes, that which is concealed behind fixed definitions and paradigms. The films position themselves on the threshold of what is and what lies beyond. This year the Persistence Resistance is arriving with films that engage with the aesthetics of cinema and politics of our everyday lives. The subjects are varied, ranging from geographical boundaries to barriers of caste, religion, gender and self.
Highlights:
Highlights:
Retrospectives of six filmmakers: Deepa Dhanraj, Manjira Datta, Saba Dewan, Krishnendu Bose, Sanjay Barnela and Supriyo Sen.
Conversations on documentary practice: Five filmmakers and one cinematographer will interact with academics and filmmakers to unravel the various strands of the documentary form in South Asia, as it exists today.
Installations: Aims to create an altogether different viewing experience where the viewer has the choice to stop and look, or walk away, to 'see in transit, Disconnect by Frame Works Research & Media Collective and Dialogue Remains Ranu Ghosh will be screened
The two-day festival is opening on February 25, 2010.
Conversations on documentary practice: Five filmmakers and one cinematographer will interact with academics and filmmakers to unravel the various strands of the documentary form in South Asia, as it exists today.
Installations: Aims to create an altogether different viewing experience where the viewer has the choice to stop and look, or walk away, to 'see in transit, Disconnect by Frame Works Research & Media Collective and Dialogue Remains Ranu Ghosh will be screened
The two-day festival is opening on February 25, 2010.
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