Dear all, I got this mail from Jabeen thru vikalp yahoo group. I'm posting this on behalf of our friends in Bangalore. A longer version of this same film festival has had a very successful run in Bombay already, and is currently on in Pune at the NFAI. Bangalore is the third stop.
Please do pass the word to everyone. G P Ramachandran ----------------- CINEMA NOVA IN BANGALORE!! Cinema Nova is an alternative space for the arts that was born in the mid 90's in Brussels. A single screen theatre, it has been an open space for alternative and independent cinema, documentary film, music, visual and performing arts. Run entirely by volunteers, it has become a kind of "arts adda" where according to their website (www.cinema-nova.org) drinks are cheap and conversation is easy to come by. Films for freedom Bangalore, and Centre for Film and Drama is pleased to invite you to a festival of Belgian and European documentaries brought to Bangalore by members of Cinema Nova. Benedict Lienard, Boris Lehman, Tristan Wibault, Katia Rossini, and Elisabeth Lebailley - Film makers, curators and artists, they will be here to present their films, chat about them and share their experiences of what it takes to create and run an alternative space for the arts. Please do keep the weekend of April 6,7 and 8 free. All screenings will be held at Centre for Film and Drama (CFD), Sona Towers, Millers Road From 6 pm onwards On Sunday, there will be a discussion at 4 pm, with some of Bangalore's "alternative" people and the members of Cinema Nova. Please do come and join in what will certainly be a lively discussion! CINEMA NOVA SCREENING SCHEDULE Friday, April 6 (6 pm to 8 pm) Topic 11 7 min, experimental Dir: Pascal Baes Shot in the streets of Prague on Super 8 film and following the experimental process of pixilation, our eyes follow figures sliding close to the walls, as wandering souls. The unstated themes of this film are about censorship and imprisonment. Untitled - 15 min, fiction Dir: Laurent Govaerts The camera follows natural elements: the still water, the wind in the trees... Nature is reclaiming its leadership of this post-industrial area. In an abandoned place that we can't localize, a man wakes up. Tinted with Lithuanian and Tarkovsky's influences, this film breathes out an obsessive and dreamlike quest for a link between the zone where you can once awake and the outer world. Koro - 13 min, fiction Dir: Guldem Durmaz The filmmaker evokes a childhood memory of visits paid to her aunt, who was a political prisoner in Turkey. We see a visit into a no-man's land, a place guarded by soldiers, through the eyes of a little girl. The film experiments with fluidity travelling shots, and creates an impression for us through the power of silent images. Ysé - 15 min Dir: Lionel Jadot Ysé is a young woman working in a place we can't exactly localize. It seems a well-organized world but she apparently sees things that other people don't. What is dream, what is reality? This film has been made by a professional Belgian interior architect and set designer. It gives us a great atmospheric and pictorial movie, with a taste of SF. Le Grand Vent (The Strong Wind) - 15 min, fiction Dir: Valérie Liénardy This short fiction takes place during the funeral gathering of Antoine's brother. Antoine is 16, and quite the rebel. The film explores the way the young boy looks at the situation and people surrounding him. It also depicts the feelings of sadness and unfairness that submerge the young boy with silence and sensibility. Valérie Liénardy is now preparing a new short film also dedicated to "a sequel in life that matters." Merci (Thank you) - 8 min Dir: Christine Bobette A city in the present time. A man gets on the tram and gives us a refreshing vision of public transport. Saturday, April 7 (6 pm to 8 pm) Une Part du Ciel (A Piece of Sky)- 90 min, fiction-documentary Dir: Bénédicte Liénard Joanna is in prison. It would seem that the illicit acts perpetrated by Joanna were justified by her difficult work conditions at the factory and pressure from the management. At the factory, the workers, her former colleagues, regret not having supported her. In fact, this is even more the case for the trade unionist, as we discover it. In prison, she revolts against the guardians, lives through conflicts with fellow prisoners and struggles to curb her violent and self-destructive impulses In this film, Bénédicte Liénard describes two mirror universes: the prison and the factory. In both cases, confinement and submission to an iniquitous hierarchy prevail, along with the exploitation of work. D'un Trait, Yassin (Yassin's Scribbles) - 3 min Dir: Anne Closset & Aline Moens Yassin is a boy who lost his home in the Palestinian unrest. Starting from a workshop with young children, the film is about how a video portrait can be sketched in some seconds, evoking the here and now. To live, I left... - 29 min, documentary-fiction Dir: Bénédicte Liénard Moustafa is number 44 632 on his entry pass to the asylum centre. This pass gives him the right to clothing, medical support and sanitary supplies. He questions the governmental procedures for asylum seekers, and feels that his identity revolves around it. His biggest dream is to marry and have children. One of the thousand stories in this no man's land called 'The Small Castle' in Brussels. Sunday, April 8 (4 pm to 8.30 pm) 4 pm: Discussion: Creating and running alternative spaces for the arts in a city like ours. 6 pm: Films screenings Tentatives de se Décrire (Trying to Describe oneself)-165 min, Documentary-fiction Dir: Boris Lehman "To keep on and on going around oneself - clearly impossible but what else to do? I come back to myself as in a nostalgic dream, each time filming what no longer exists, what has died in me already the past and shadow of myself". After many films, master film-maker Boris Lehman comes back with the second part of a very singular project filmed in the manner of a personal letter that includes travels, documentation about what he is doing, his social environment, the contemporary artist, anything that is close or rezoning upon his universe. Trying to Describe Oneself is a film about representation, exploring how it is possible, through film, to describe oneself and describe others, with the camera as mirror and third eye. Something between documentary and feature film, this is a portrait of Boris Lehman from 1989 to 1995. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ greenyouth mailinglist is the activist support mailinglist for kerala run by Global Alternate Information Applications (GAIA) To post to this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
