Certificate Course on City Narratives in Literature and Cinema.

From Majlis, Mumbai, India.
www.majlisbombay.org
Am sharing this here for those of you who might be interested.

This is to announce the inauguration of the certificate course on City Narratives in Literature and Cinema on 9th July at Mini Auditorium, Research Unit Building, SNDT University, Juhu Campus.
www.cinemacitycourse.com

Programme (Open to Public)

9th July
Cinema City Exhibition opens at 5pm

Tea at 6.30pm

7pm
Inauguration by Prof Chanda Krishnamurti, Vice Chancellor, SNDT Women’s University

Cultural Collaboration: Address by Marla Stukenberg, Director, Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai

City Narratives in Literature and Cinema: a pedagogical initiative. Introduction by Mitra Parikh, Head of the Dept., English and Dept of Post Graduate Research and Studies, SNDT Women’s University

Film screening: Anna Sound Please Director: Madhavi Tangella
Tucked behind the bus stops or under the flyovers of Bombay run illegal / unofficial shacks of cinema that double up for shelter and linguistic refuge for migrant wage workers.


7.40-8.40pm

Panel Discussion: Cinematic Cities and City Cinema
Speakers: Madhusree Dutta, Curator, Cinema City project, Rahul Srivastav, author and social scientist and Sadanand Menon, art and media critic. Moderator: Kaushik Bhaumik, Film Historian


Cinema City: Research Art and Archive Exhibition
Foyer of Mini Auditorium, SNDT University, Juhu Campus.
9th, 10th and 12th July
3-7pm

The Western Suburb: Video Installation on Sweatshops of Cinema
Avijit Mukul Kishore, Mamta Murthy, Rikhav Desai & Found Footage Archive of Majlis
Traces the network of production units, hidden in holes in the wall, that produces the Cinema.

Cinema City Lived: Book in the ware house
Editor: Rohan Shivkumar, Text: Hansa Thapliyal, Design: Abhinav Shaw, Research: Design Cell, KRVIA
Compilation of the marks of cinema in the body of the city as the production process shifts from materiality to digitality.


Bioscope: Cinema-City-Modernity Dateline
Kausik Mukhopadhyay
The playful randomness in the functioning of bioscope is renegotiated to destabilize the linearity of historicity.

Calendars: Iconography in 20th Century
Art Works by Multiple Artists, Research: Shikha Pandey
The works are based on found images and the individual artists’ readings of the public imagination of the time.

Interactive Archive
Research by Majlis and Design Cell, KRVIA, Graphic Design: Abhinav Shaw
Software Design: Thatzit
Participatory excavation of the city of entertainment.


Creative Director and Curator: Madhusree Dutta
Visual designer: Kausik Mukhopadhyay

Please do come and inform the fellow city enthusiasts.


Marla Stukenberg Madhusree Dutta Mitra Parikh
Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai Majlis SNDT Women’s University.