Please join us for an evening of film screenings from the Creative Documentary Course (CDC), Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts & Communication (SACAC).
Chaaya (From the Shadows), Dir. Nundrisha Wakhloo, Dur.24 min, CDC Diploma Film-2015
The filmmaker finds, in some places and people in Mehrauli, a canvas of internal and external spaces. She explores various elements of the physical and psychological that prevail in our society, elements that shape our fundamental ways of being. What are the expressions of desire, longing, pain, grief, belief, strength and joy- the complexities that possess this known – unknown world?
I Am Yet To See Delhi (Maine Dilli Nahin Dekha), Dir. Humaira Bilkis, Dur. 19min, CDC Diploma Film-2014
The film is a subjective journey, exploring a new city. The filmmaker discovers the soul of the city, not in its museums, mausoleums and architecture, but in her relationship with its people. The process of looking at the urban space offers the filmmaker a chance to relook at her own space, identity and cultural moorings. Moving alone to Delhi to study film, the ‘I’ loses herself in the city, her camera becoming a part of her. Listening to the breath of the people who inhabit this place – its roads, markets, mosques and tourist spots – and following where her gaze takes her, she picks up casual conversations and the general buzz, beginning to hear the timbre of the city. Sinking deeply into the word that is ‘I’, she spells out the quavering movements of her outsider feelings. A personal journey inscribing Delhi’s pulse.
Saatvin Khwahish (Seventh Wish), Dir. Varun Trikha, Dur. 27min, CDC Diploma Film- 2014
The film looks at the politics of representation in the denounced poetry of Rekhti, colloquial Urdu poetry written in the language and voice of women. Guided by the poetry, the film creates a woman scape through the fragments of contemporary lives of some women and the Gjins, the intangible survivors of Rekhti. Within this world, it imagines desires considered outrageous- desires that led to a century of rejection of Rekhti.