Indian New Wave Series
Specially Curated Sessions of Film Analysis and Film Appreciation
with Deb Kamal Ganguly.
2nd & 3rd September 2023, 14:30 to 18:30 IST _Online.
Course Overview
Indian New Wave Cinema, which flourished during 1970s, is considered as one of the most significant and exciting phases of cinematic creation in the long history of Indian cinema. Unlike other ‘New Wave’ film movements in various parts of the world, Indian New Wave cinema does show a broader spectrum of artistic engagements with various different positions related to the issues of ‘how to construe the real and the contemporary’. Cinema of Mani Kaul offers unique experience due to almost unprecedented cinematic formations, prompted by the aesthetic search for possible expression beyond realism, or melodrama, within the context of lived senses of civilization of India.
The second feature film by Mani Kaul Ashad ka Ek Din (1971), is a unique experiment to find and create ‘cinematic object’ out of a play written for performance of drama. Based on a famous play by modernist Hindi litterateur Mohan Rakesh, written in 1958, the film in a way tried to test the limit of the pulse and possibility of cinema, where the physical space was made almost as confined as that of a proscenium, and dialogues are intentionally performed verbatim as per the play. The course also would offer a glimpse to the great Sanskrit literary creation of classical era, Meghdut by Kalidasa, in terms of content and form, and its surrogate presence in the cinematic search of Mani Kaul, and that creative gesture of Mani Kaul shows possibilities of a different trajectory for cinematic modernism, different from that of literary modernism in India.
Participant Profile
Participants are welcome who might be interested in the literary modernism and modernist cinema in India, the artistic methodologies of Indian New Wave Cinema, modernist take on classical literature, relationship between theater and cinema, cinematographic articulation in a limited physical space through the gestures of bodies and gestures of utterances by the actors, and related areas.
FACULTY:
Deb Kamal Ganguly
An alumnus from Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI), Kolkata, DebKamal Ganguly is an independent filmmaker, researcher and teacher of cinematic arts. He has taught for 08 years (2012-2020) and designed curriculum in Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, in the departments of Film Editing, Film Direction and Screen Studies; and as a guest faculty in National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, Flame University, Pune, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar. Ganguly’s works have been published under special curator-ship from Lowave, Paris; his video art featured in the exhibition ‘Indian Highway’ and showcased in galleries of various cities of Europe and Asia. His films done in the capacity of editor, script-writer and sound designer have been shown in competitive sections of various international festivals and received recognition, including ‘Tiger Award for Shorts’ in Rotterdam (IFFR 2007). Ganguly has presented papers in various international and national seminars and conferences on various themes related to cinema, Deleuze studies, visual art, interfaces of art practices, translation studies, collective memory, Bengal studies, Media studies, pedagogy of cinema, film editing as a discipline, immersive sound etc including CARA-CILECT conference in Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg (2018), CILECT conference in VGIK, Moscow (2019), Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater (2019). He is a participant of an international project for artistic research involving BRICS countries, being the coordinator for India (2018).
BASELINE CONTRIBUTION TO CONFIRM PARTICIPATION:
₹ 1200 – For Participants from India and SAARC Nations
€ 250 – For Other International Participants
Voluntary Contribution for Aurovilians.
(We invite you to contribute over and above the baseline – voluntarily, if you wish)
CERTIFICATES:
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