Space Bar (Work in ‘Progress’)

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Space Bar (Work in ‘Progress’)
NR 1 hr 28 minReframe - Scanning Time/Documenting Change : Experimental Film & Video Art From India PosterPart of Reframe - Scanning Time/Documenting Change : Experimental Film & Video Art From India
Self-produced working version (as part of Associate Fellowship from Sarai, CSDS, New Delhi) – as a kind of video discourse on the research topic – “The 'Plateaus and Forests' of Modern Bangla Literature: Manufacturing Urban Subjectivity by Consuming Space”. In 2009, a 20 min cut of the project got released in the international DVD label Reframe from Lowave, France, known to promote experimental film.
DirectorDeb Kamal Ganguly
WriterDeb Kamal Ganguly

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Original Language:English

Reframe - Scanning Time/Documenting Change : Experimental Film & Video Art From India

A selection of seven films from a contemporary cinema, removed from Bollywood, that testifies to the richness of creativity in India. Oscillating between documentary, video art, experimental film, and animation, this compilation explores the means with which the texture of memory is incorporated within post-colonial Indian society's individual journeys as well as the national psyche; within private circles as well as public spaces. It allows for contrasting points of view regarding the country's situation and its unanswered question: when the past has yet to catch up with the present, is it a threat or an alternative to the present?