There is a narrow lane that leads to her home.
I learnt that she is no more.
but in the interstices that lay between the lane, door. hers and mine
I have discovered a spot that is full of memories-hers and mine.
Her face is always there.
It was there as I was playing a little postman in the afternoons
passing love letters between her son and his lady love.
It was there when I had folded my skirt a little above knee
and feared what if she quotes from the qoran if I meet her on the street.
It was there in the little box of pearl jewels she put in my palm.
I miss that warmth.
She forced us to sing Iqbal on the Republic Day function
She would order tents,food and celebrate in the street.
She would draw my mother into doing very crazy things.
A picnic on a hot summer afternoon in the Delhi Zoo to say the least.
May her soul rest in peace.
May she smile down on us reading this.
-March 29th 2011.
I don't want to pretend that this is a poem.
It is just an attempt at saving her memories.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Listening to Kathryn Ramey
http://emerson.academia.edu/KathrynRamey
I have been editing from over 80 hours of footage shot over a year between New Delhi and Philadelphia. The footage ranges between cellphone videos, Flipvideo, HDV cameras, Canon 7D and the Canon 5DMarkII.
This is film about being homesick and being in love with a place. Can you miss a place like you miss someone you've grown to love? How do you deal with an absence of a place?
I had entered the listening of Kathryn Ramey's Lecture with some of these thoughts.
The rest of the notes are in my little paris diary.
but am putting little words here so that I remember:
sculptural editing
optical printing
film vs video vs 7D/5D MArkII
Vulnerability of character and vulnerability of film
Ektachrome
Jonas Mekas
Chris Marker
travelling matte technique in optical printing
anthropology has a tortured relationship with image
you've been conditioned by the images of the past into how you will look at images of the future
intersection of anthropological and avant garde
anthropology is what anthropologists do
Avant Garde practice: people who work in expanded networks of academia and institutions who seeks to push the boundaries in a way mainstream would not do.
Art Markets, Museums, Film
Maya Deren Robert Gardner
1980: Trinh Minh Ha/post modernism/Jay Reubes
Rupture od stories and many stories.
I have been editing from over 80 hours of footage shot over a year between New Delhi and Philadelphia. The footage ranges between cellphone videos, Flipvideo, HDV cameras, Canon 7D and the Canon 5DMarkII.
This is film about being homesick and being in love with a place. Can you miss a place like you miss someone you've grown to love? How do you deal with an absence of a place?
I had entered the listening of Kathryn Ramey's Lecture with some of these thoughts.
The rest of the notes are in my little paris diary.
but am putting little words here so that I remember:
sculptural editing
optical printing
film vs video vs 7D/5D MArkII
Vulnerability of character and vulnerability of film
Ektachrome
Jonas Mekas
Chris Marker
travelling matte technique in optical printing
anthropology has a tortured relationship with image
you've been conditioned by the images of the past into how you will look at images of the future
intersection of anthropological and avant garde
anthropology is what anthropologists do
Avant Garde practice: people who work in expanded networks of academia and institutions who seeks to push the boundaries in a way mainstream would not do.
Art Markets, Museums, Film
Maya Deren Robert Gardner
1980: Trinh Minh Ha/post modernism/Jay Reubes
Rupture od stories and many stories.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Friday, July 30, 2010
on IBN Live a couple of years back.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/muslims-rediscover-faith-strength/23855-3.html
Only that my discomfort has grown since in the manner of a disquiet.
Only that my discomfort has grown since in the manner of a disquiet.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Saturday, July 3, 2010
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.
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.
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