A still from Quarter no 4/11
What:
Fd Zone Mumbai screening of Charles Correa’s “City On The Water” & Ranu Ghosh’s “Quarter Number 4/11”
Curatorial Note:
On 23rd August we will build a discussion around two narratives both dealing with urban planning and development. First, a macro vision where India’s leading architect and urban planner Charles Correa proposes a solution to the problems of a huge metropolis literally falling apart under population pressure. He searches for inspiration by tracing the path of the conception of the city itself.
The second story presents the micro picture – the lived reality of a common man, trying to survive in a city bent upon throwing him out. While one film proposes an organic and holistic approach, the other documents the fallout of market-oriented urban ‘development’. Separated by four decades, set in two different cities, these films present an interesting study of urban development throwing up important questions of housing,...
What:
Fd Zone Mumbai screening of Charles Correa’s “City On The Water” & Ranu Ghosh’s “Quarter Number 4/11”
Curatorial Note:
On 23rd August we will build a discussion around two narratives both dealing with urban planning and development. First, a macro vision where India’s leading architect and urban planner Charles Correa proposes a solution to the problems of a huge metropolis literally falling apart under population pressure. He searches for inspiration by tracing the path of the conception of the city itself.
The second story presents the micro picture – the lived reality of a common man, trying to survive in a city bent upon throwing him out. While one film proposes an organic and holistic approach, the other documents the fallout of market-oriented urban ‘development’. Separated by four decades, set in two different cities, these films present an interesting study of urban development throwing up important questions of housing,...
- 8/20/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
What:
Screening of documentary films on the theme of “Road Trips”, curated by Paromita Vohra at Fd Zone, Mumbai
When:
May 31, 4 pm onwards
Where:
Rr 2 Theatre
6th floor
Stage 2 Building
Films Division
Pedder Road, Mumbai
Entry:
Free. Seating on first-come, first-served basis
Details of program:
Trip/ Udan
Pramod Pati, B/W, 35mm, 4 min, 1970
Day lapses into night, emptiness into frenzy and then rest again. The city wakes up, never really having slept. A time-lapse experimental film that chronicles Bombay’s breathless pace, its endless race of trains, cars and shadows.
Director – Pramod Pati
Camera – B. V. Dhawale
Editing – U. H. Rao
Music – Vijay Raghav Rao
Sound – S. D. Patil
Producer – Films Division
A Mercedes For Ashish /Aur Ashish Ke Liye Ek Mercedes
Ruchir Joshi, Digital Video, 31 min, 2006
The cruel city and its ruthless traffic run down love and other such delusions.
In `A Mercedes for Ashish’, an unseen man waits...
Screening of documentary films on the theme of “Road Trips”, curated by Paromita Vohra at Fd Zone, Mumbai
When:
May 31, 4 pm onwards
Where:
Rr 2 Theatre
6th floor
Stage 2 Building
Films Division
Pedder Road, Mumbai
Entry:
Free. Seating on first-come, first-served basis
Details of program:
Trip/ Udan
Pramod Pati, B/W, 35mm, 4 min, 1970
Day lapses into night, emptiness into frenzy and then rest again. The city wakes up, never really having slept. A time-lapse experimental film that chronicles Bombay’s breathless pace, its endless race of trains, cars and shadows.
Director – Pramod Pati
Camera – B. V. Dhawale
Editing – U. H. Rao
Music – Vijay Raghav Rao
Sound – S. D. Patil
Producer – Films Division
A Mercedes For Ashish /Aur Ashish Ke Liye Ek Mercedes
Ruchir Joshi, Digital Video, 31 min, 2006
The cruel city and its ruthless traffic run down love and other such delusions.
In `A Mercedes for Ashish’, an unseen man waits...
- 5/26/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
What: Film screenings on Contemporary Indian Art
Organizers: The fd Zone, Films Division, Mumbai
Program:
Through The Eyes Of A Painter
Films Division, 35mm, B/W, 18 min, Hindi, 1967
Direction – Mf Husain
Experimentation – Jehan Bhownagry
Camera – Js Ralhan
Sound – J Raghavendra Rao
Editing – UK Wadke
Music – Vijay Raghav Rao
Mf Husain, on the invitation of Jehan Bhownagry made an experimental film for Films Division in the 20th year of India’s independence. He visited Rajasthan and filmed landscapes, faces, architecture and water. Everywhere he sought abstraction. His recurring motifs were a lantern, an umbrella, a cow and a shoe, that appear in the most unexpected of places. In the midst of all this are Husain’s iconic images of the Indian peasant – a man and a woman, united by Vijay Raghav Rao’s sound design.
To Let The World In, Volume 2
HD video, Colour and B/W, 53 min, 2013
English and Hindi...
Organizers: The fd Zone, Films Division, Mumbai
Program:
Through The Eyes Of A Painter
Films Division, 35mm, B/W, 18 min, Hindi, 1967
Direction – Mf Husain
Experimentation – Jehan Bhownagry
Camera – Js Ralhan
Sound – J Raghavendra Rao
Editing – UK Wadke
Music – Vijay Raghav Rao
Mf Husain, on the invitation of Jehan Bhownagry made an experimental film for Films Division in the 20th year of India’s independence. He visited Rajasthan and filmed landscapes, faces, architecture and water. Everywhere he sought abstraction. His recurring motifs were a lantern, an umbrella, a cow and a shoe, that appear in the most unexpected of places. In the midst of all this are Husain’s iconic images of the Indian peasant – a man and a woman, united by Vijay Raghav Rao’s sound design.
To Let The World In, Volume 2
HD video, Colour and B/W, 53 min, 2013
English and Hindi...
- 7/8/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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