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CINEMA OF PRAYOGA is a unique touring exhibition of artists’ film and video work from India, both historical and contemporary. These films and videos were originally excavated from archives and showcased by Shai Heredia at EXPERIMENTA India between 2004 – 2006. @ TATE MODERN (15-19 September, 2006) Made available for the first time in the...
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‘Jan Villa’ Natasha Mendonca, India 2011 16mm on dvd colour & b&w sound 20mins After the monsoon floods of 2005 that submerged Bombay, the filmmaker returns to her city to examine the personal impact of the devastating event. The result is Jan Villa, a tapestry of images that studies the space of a post-colonial metropolis but in a way that...
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Nov 28, 2011 • Comments Closed
EXPERIMENTA, India’s only film festival celebrating artists’ film and video continues to play an integral role in showcasing uncompromising, fresh and compelling moving image art from across the world. EXPERIMENTA will host a retrospective of the cinema of Adolfas Mekas, a central figure in the western avant garde independent film movement, presented by his wife...
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Nov 27, 2011 • Comments Closed
OLIVER HUSAIN – ARTIST IN FOCUS Presented by Oliver Husain 2nd December| Friday | 6.30pm| 70mins | NGMA “I often begin with a portrait of a person or place. The outcome is a video or film, a text or a textile; something foldable that can be stored away easily, or something standing on thin...
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TIMEOUT BENGALURU AVANT GARDE BANGALORE ISSUE Novel vague Avijit Mukul Kishore, Ayisha Abraham, Iram Ghufran and Shambhavi Kaul discuss their experimental creations with Jaideep Sen. The multifarious selections at this year’s Experimenta, in many ways, represent the as-yet shifting and extending idea of experimental avant-garde cinema in India. Indeed, a few of these films...
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TIMEOUT BENGALURU AVANT GARDE BANGALORE ISSUE Bring home the groovy This year’s edition of Experimenta features a strong contingent of spirited artists, says Michael G Unnis. Of all the constructs, paradigms, stratagems, intellections and conceits that you will come upon in the following pages, perhaps the one most pertinent to Experimenta, as a festival of...
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Nov 26, 2011 • Comments Closed
National Gallery of Modern Art, Bangalore November 30th 6pm ‘Hallelujah The Hills’ USA 1963 16mm b&w sound 82 mins “Hallelujah the Hills is a gloriously funny and far-out farce about two great big overgrown boy scouts who pratfall in love...
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Nov 22, 2011 • Comments Closed
EXPERIMENTA, India’s only film festival celebrating artists’ film and video continues to play an integral role in showcasing uncompromising, fresh and compelling moving image art from across the world. EXPERIMENTA will host a retrospective of the cinema of Adolfas Mekas, a central figure in the western avant garde independent film movement, presented by his wife...
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Jul 9, 2011 • Comments Closed
EXPERIMENTA and GALLERYSKE presents an evening with avant-garde filmmakers David Gatten and Jessie Stead at 6pm on Sunday January 20th, 2008 . Filmmaker, Henry James fan, recent Guggenheim fellow and aspiring audio book artist, David Gatten makes bookish films about letters and libraries, lovers and ghosts that are filled with words, some of which you can even read. His work has shown...
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Jul 4, 2011 • Comments Closed
The Experimenta Film Society (EFS) kick starts 2011 with a film performance by performance artist Sally Golding of Otherfilm, Australia, who has been on a residency with EFS in Bangalore. Sally Golding works on the cusp of performance, moving image art and visual hallucination. She will be performing for the first time in India,...
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PROJECTING UTOPIAS On the occasion of the astronomy festival, “Kalpanaye Yatre – Journey of Imaginations”, Experimenta Film Society presents “Projecting Utopias” on December 1st, 2nd and 3rd at 5.30pm at the Bangalore planetarium. By discussing films that blur the boundaries between science, magic, spirituality and mythology, Shai Heredia, director of Experimenta, will explore...
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Jul 4, 2011 • Comments Closed
Lux Salon: Past Imperfect Thursday 28th July 7pm for 7.30pm Curated and presented by Shai Heredia, Director of Experimenta, India Since its inception in 2003, Experimenta, the festival for experimental cinema in India has presented a critique of the predominant narrative of the history of Indian Cinema, by highlighting omissions and offering alternative narratives. Over...