- Description:
- DVD - Region free. reference copy. 1 videodisc of 1.
color and b/w.
fullscreen. sound - stereo.
- Notes:
- Supplemental features include: artist statement and short interview with each filmmaker. Essay booklet (in French and English) available from checkout.
Titles
+ Rashtriy Kheer & Desiy Salad
- Alternate Title:
- National Pudding & Indigenous Salad
- Director:
- N, Pushpamala
- Production Co:
- Somberikatte Films
- Running Time:
- Short. 11 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- India
- Year:
- 2004
- Language:
- English with optional English or French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Pushpamala N. addresses India's national identity through the portrait of an ideal middle class family during the 1950's and 60's. The title, which means National Pudding & Indigenous Salad, makes reference to two dishes featuring the colors of the national flag as they symbolize the country's different communities, united in celebration of Independence Day.
+ Straight 8
- Director:
- Abraham, Ayisha
- Running Time:
- Short. 17 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color and b/w
- Country:
- India
- Year:
- 2005
- Language:
- English with optional English or French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- The film relates to Tom Aguiar, an Anglo-Indian who worked in the telecommunications sector. Though Straight 8 is based on real life, with personal anecdotes and montages of private scenes, it's not a life story. Instead the film aims to capture the fragmented memory and imaginary realm of his projects.
+ Ceasural Variations 1 and 2
- Director:
- Raqs Media Collective
- Running Time:
- Short. 8 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color and b/w
- Country:
- India
- Year:
- 2007
- Language:
- English with optional English or French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production
- Notes:
- A video meditation in two parts featuring Pittsburgh, PA as a backdrop. In Ceasural, Variations 1, the screen is divided horizontally. The upper part takes us through the countryside along the banks of the Allegheny River and towards an abandoned steel mill that's been reclaimed by nature while images of factory effluence sculpts the sky. The second film is a tour of a steel shop through various archival images from the 1930's, leaving a phantom like space to appear, empty of its workers.
+ Endnote (Antaral)
- Director:
- Avikunthak, Ashish
- Running Time:
- Short. 18 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- India
- Year:
- 2005
- Language:
- Hindi with optional English or French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
- Notes:
- Based on the play “Come and Go” by Samuel Beckett. Beckett’s play transported to Calcutta, with ruminations on forgotten times and places, thwarted friendships and loves.
+ Bengali Tourist
- Director:
- Banerjee, Sarnath
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- India
- Year:
- 2003
- Language:
- English with optional English or French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Animation
- Notes:
- The story is a palimpsest that recounts contemporary Calcutta through the voyages of Ibn Battuta (1304-1369), the only known medieval traveler to have visited each Muslim country of his time. The grand traveler from Tangiers leaves on an expedition to the Middle East, travels through the sultanate of Delhi, all the way to China, in the 14th century.
+ I Love My India
- Director:
- Shah, Tejal
- Running Time:
- Short. 10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- India
- Year:
- 2003
- Language:
- Gujarati, Hindi and English with optional English or French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Documentary, Female Directors
- Notes:
- Satirical investigation of the state of Indian democracy focusing on an opinion poll being delivered in front of a stand reading “I Love My India” in balloons.
+ Space Bar (Work in ‘Progress’)
- Director:
- Ganguly, Debkamal
- Running Time:
- Short. 21 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- India
- Year:
- 2008
- Language:
- Hindi with optional English or French subtitles
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde, Video Production
- Notes:
- The video is part of a long tradition of words examining urban sprawl, in a manner composed of non-urban space and the relationship to the sacred-mythological places, but that also secularizes those spaces, finding new frames for myth and metaphor
