Saturday 16 September 2006, 18.00

Part of Cinema of Prayoga: Indian Experimental Film and Video 1913–2006

Programme duration 75 min

A significant feature of contemporary Indian experimental film practice is the emergence of influential work by NRI (non-resident Indian) artists. In a variety of contexts, these artists live, study and/or work outside India and are returning to explore their cultural roots.

The films in this programme map these processes of migration, spatio-temporal disjuncture and cross-cultural dialogue, pointing to the range of self-reflexive strategies deployed by NRI artists in negotiating their postcolonial status. The films screened include Shumona Goel's portrayal of alienation and dislocation in Bombay, Anuradha Chandra's process-specific meditation on time and interiority, and Xav Leplae's ludic restaging of a 1973 Bollywood classic.

18(+2) Blinks of an Eye
Anuradha Chandra, India/USA 2004, 23 min  

Atreyee
Shumona Goel, India 2004, 20 min  

I'm Bobby
Xav Leplae, India/USA 2003, 32 min  

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£4, booking recommended

    

See also:

  UBS Openings: Saturday Live: Mapping Mumbai   Saturday 16 September 2006

  UBS Openings: Saturday Live: Encounter(s): Tejal Shah and Varsha Nair   Saturday 16 September 2006   free

  UBS Openings: Saturday Live: Between the Familiar/Unfamiliar,: the Home and Heart, Beats a Golden Kiss: Monali Meher   Saturday 16 September 2006   free

  UBS Openings: Saturday Live: D'Archetypes, Sujata Goel and Tarek Halaby, and Mukul   Saturday 16 September 2006   free