CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF LAW AND GOVERNANCE
Jawaharlal Nehru University
SEMINAR SERIES
Anjali Monteiro and KP Jayasankar
Professors, School of Media and Cultural Studies,
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
On
Documentary Film in India as a Site of Resistance
Abstract : This talk, illustrated with film clips, is based on the book A Fly in the Curry: Independent Documentary Film in India. It will explore the space of independent documentaries from the 1970s, focusing on films that have questioned social relations of power as well as those that have problematised the evidentiary claims of the documentary film. The talk will look at the relation of documentary to social movements, the question of realism; the turn to reflexivity; and the dynamics of the documentary movement in the Indian public sphere, with focus on struggles against censorship.
3.00 PM, Tuesday, 20 February 2018
Conference Room, CSLG, JNU
About the Speakers: Anjali Monteiro and KP Jayasankar are Professors at the School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. They are involved in media production, teaching and research. They have played a key role in setting up the School of Media and Cultural Studies, TISS and the MA programme in Media and Cultural Studies. Their documentary films, which have been screened across the world, have won 32 national and international awards. Their most recent awards are the Best Film award at the International Folk Film Festival, Kathmandu and the Basil Wright Prize for So Heddan So Hoddan (Like Here Like There) at the 13th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film 2013, Edinburgh. Retrospectives include Vibgyor Film Festival, Kerala, 2006; Bangalore Film Society, 2010; Madurai International Film Festival, 2012 and Parramasala Sydney, 2013. An adaptation of their film Saacha (The Loom) was a part of the art exhibition ‘Project Space: Word. Sound. Power.’ at the Tate Modern, London, in 2013; and at Khoj, New Delhi in 2014. Their book entitled A Fly in the Curry, on independent Indian documentary, published by Sage in 2016, won a Special Mention for the best book on cinema in the National Film Awards, 2016.
PLEASE JOIN US FOR TEA AFTER THE SEMINAR