The Experimental Eye on 3rd i April 30, 2006

Curious about the esoteric and 'snooty' world of experimental cinema? Well, this is your chance to learn a little history, theory and aesthetics of South Asian experimental film. Two local South Asian Filmmakers and scholars present a class on experimental and South Asian experimental film -- The Experimental Eye on 3rd i

This 101 3rd i experimental film class will be divided into two 40 min parts. We will have a break, discussion and Q & A:

Ashish Chadha's, PHD candidate at Stanford, will talk on the conceptual idea of "prayog"- Sanskrit for experiment. It will delineate a history ofexperimentation in Indian cinema with the works of Dada Saheb Phalke to the Indian New Wave of the 1960s, with a specific impetus on the idea ofexperimentation in narrative cinema and its links to folk and traditional South Asian art of story telling.

Kirthi Nath, MFA, who teaches at BAVC, will concentrate on how films by and/or about people of color, women and queer people use experimental andhybrid filmmaking strategies to express and document complicated and often untold stories. She will show examples that use "the poetic", to disrupt traditional signifiers of fact, and explore the personal as a landscape connected to the outside world, to tell subtle and powerful stories.

Sunday April 30th 2006, 2pm - 3:30pm
ATA Artist Television Access992 Valencia Street San Francisco (@21st in the mission) CA 94110
Price: $8 - Please pay at the ATA theatre door

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