21st century cinema in focus at Bengaluru film club

The Parallel Cinema Club is focusing on ‘21st Century Cinema’ this month. The month-long curation is divided into four segments — The World at Large, Life Before Social Media, Cine Revolution and New Journalism. 

“The curation is compartmentalised into various themes that have enthralled our times. They span themes of love and sexuality. The curation also includes experimental, coming-of-age and political films. Redefined genres and adoption of new age aesthetics are other highlights to look forward to,” says Nikhil Waiker, the club’s founder. 

With ‘Seven Songs from Tundra’ (2000), ‘Fragile as the World’ (2001) and ‘The Odds of Recovery’ (2002), ‘The World at Large’ section will explore loss, resilience, and tension between traditional lifestyles and modernisation. The focus is on intimate storytelling in the ‘Life Before Social Media segment’, which includes ‘The Super 8 Years’ (2022), ‘I Ran From It and Was Still in It’ (2020), and ‘Guest’ (2010) among others.

‘Cine Revolution’ features experimental films like ‘Dry Leaf’, shot on an old Sony Ericsson W595 phone; ‘At Sea’, about the journey of a container ship shot over three years; ‘An Extraordinary Study in Human Degradation’, about existential crisis shot on a phone camera; and political films such as the eccentric animated documentary ‘The Herstory of the Female Filmmaker’; the six-part story of resistance, ‘Communists’; and ‘Film Socialisme’, an avant garde essay on societal decay.

The month-long focus will close with ‘New Journalism’ which features Anand Patwardhan’s ‘War and Peace’ and ‘Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father’.

Screenings every week on Tuesday and Thursday at 7.45 pm and
Saturday at 2 pm, at Angala, Coxtown. Tickets and full schedule on urbanaut.app