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Through an urban lens

Film festival
Last Updated 03 March 2016, 18:39 IST

Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) is all set for its third edition of ‘Urban Lens Film Festival’, which is on till March 6, at its Sadashivanagar campus.

The city, in the cinematic imagination, has always been a site of multiple and complex narratives.

      These narratives have allowed for different ways of seeing and telling stories about the urban landscape; about people and places whose stories might not immediately be apparent.

The festival  primarily showcases non-fiction films that engage with the real and imagined idea of the city, over time.       These films come from different story-telling traditions and formal practices: from ethnographic accounts of the city, to personal essay films and
animation films — all the films seek to interrogate different facets of what the urban
produces.

This edition features a wide range of films from India and abroad, including animation and student films. Among the Indian films being shown are Mira Nair’s ‘India Cabaret’ and ‘So Far From India’, Arun Khopkar’s ‘Narayan Gangaram Surve’, Rahul Roy’s ‘The
Factory’, Ruchir Joshi’s ‘My Rio, My Tokio’, Paromita Vohra’s ‘Where’s Sandra?’
and Gitanjali Rao’s ‘TrueLoveStory’.

The international films include Harun Farocki’s ‘Videograms of a Revolution’ and ‘Workers Leaving the Factory’, Fatih Akin’s ‘Crossing the Bridge’, Olivier Meys and Zhang Yaxuan’s
‘A Disappearance Foretold’ and Jens Wenkel’s ‘Lagos-Notes of a City’.

It features a series of talks that seek to examine the contexts, languages and aesthetics that shape the cinematic discourse on the city and citizens.

      The festival brings together an eclectic mix of practitioners who will discuss their work and preoccupations surrounding these concerns, be they formal, historical or to do with the very brass-tacks of image-making and the codes that get formed around it. The themes are varied.

     These talks, discussions and presentations seek to remind us of the wide range
of cinematic heritage of the country, and hope to extend the discourse by putting a
very specific group of practitioners in dialogue with each other.

Entry for the film festival is free.
For details, visit http://iihs.co.in/urbanlens/#schedule

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(Published 03 March 2016, 15:54 IST)

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