Tuesday 19 September 2006, 18.30

Programme duration 90 min

The Indian artists in this programme interrogate the conventions of ethnographic and narrative filmmaking to explore questions of filmic representation.

The films invoke music, poetry, myth and performance to examine the relationship between their status as filmic texts and the fictions-in-progress of their subjects. Also included are an encounter with the transsexual ritual of Kali worship in Kalighat Fetish, India's first gay film BOMgAY, and the storybook of young boy (who is also an old man) in Kshya Tra Gya.

Programme:

Kalighat Fetish
Ashish Avikunthak, India 1999, 22 min

BOMgAY
Riyad Wadia, India 1996, 12 min

A Short Season
Ashim Ahluwalia, India 1995, 30 min

Kshya Tra Gya
Amit Dutta, India 2004, 22 min

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£4, booking recommended