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Breather, developed by Andrea Polliillustrates the problem of air pollution in Delhi India, where one person dies every hour from breathing complications. In this work, a common Indian car is encased in a plastic bubble that inflates and deflates at a rate similar to human breathing. Commissioned by Khoj International, New Delhi. Khoj Studios based in New Delhi sees its role as an incubator for art and ideas, artistic exchange and dialog in the visual arts. Through their programming they aim to assist and develop, forms of art such as media art, performance, video, environmental, public and community based art, sound and other experimental modes of cultural production.
The Dewarists is a new original series. Part music documentary and part travelogue, the show features inspiring musicians collaborating to create original music while traveling to locations across India.
The verdant landscapes of Kaziranga set the stage for Angaraag 'Papon' Mahanta and Rabbi Shergill. The former is a native of the state, and revered within it for introducing an entire generation to ancient folk melodies that would otherwise have been lost forever. The latter introduces his Sufi-tinged, intrinsically Punjabi sound for a memorable collaboration.
Surfing is an alien sport in Indian sub continent. Our passion for surfing , Healing beaches with yogic practices, mystical waves of Indian ocean are the inspirations to unite surfers from around the globe in the 1st Indian Surf festival. This epic event will be a pipeline to connect powers of sun healing with art of surfing to become a subtle tool of meditation which synchronize all of us with the cosmos. Contact our travel partner- info@grassroutesjourneys.com +91 9437029698 skype: grassroutesjourneys Nearest airport: Bhubaneswar- 70 Kms. Nearest railway station: 15 Kms. There are plenty of hotels and guest houses in town of Puri & Konark to suit every kind of budget. Limited camping facility available in Surfers Island. Nearest International airport: Kolkatta: 375 Kms. Temperature : warm/moderate around 20-25 degree For more information contact ( Orissa ) Sanjay - 91-09437003284 surfingyogis@gmail.com ( Mumbai ) Spandan - 91-09819639336 banerjee.spandan@gmail.com ( Mumbai ) Kedar - 91-09702569316 sonigra.kedar@gmail.com (Mumbai) Sachin Salian 91-08655505506 sachinssalian@gmail.com (USA) Kaelean sizemore 949-275-7786 (pri)\ 949-498-3554 (sec) alisokaelan@yahoo.com Also check http://surfingyogis.com/ http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.233796133347936.57987.100001526545253&type=1&l=0691c59a17 Follow us on http://facebook.com/surfingyogis http://www.youtube.com/surfingyogis Come.. allow your consciousness to expand and inner energy to liberate.
Simon Thackerguitar Sarvar Sabritabla Japjit Kaurvocal Jyotsna Srikanthviolin
Svara-Kanti is the latest Indian/Western supergroup from visionary guitar virtuoso Simon Thacker.
Four leading performers of Indian and Western music come together to present dazzling Indian classical traditions, Bollywood songs and evocative folk music, all reinterpreted with Western classical and jazz influences to create powerful and inspiring new sounds.
Svara-Kanti features award winning guitarist Simon Thacker, tabla maestro Sarvar Sabri, who has a musical lineage stretching back ten generations, Carnatic violinist Dr Jyotsna Srikanth, who has recorded over 200 Bollywood film soundtracks and is also a London Trinity College of Music Fellow, and the beautiful voice of Japjit Kaur.
A room at the house where Mahatma Gandhi lived from 1908-1909 in the Norwood suburb of Johannesburg. Once known as The Kraal, The Satyagraha House has been turned into a seven-room room guest house and museum.
THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART, BENGALURU & THE EXPERIMENTA FILM SOCIETY PRESENT EXPERIMENTA 2011 The International Festival for Moving Image Art in India November 30 – December 4, 2011
VENUES: NGMA Bangalore, 7HS (Cook Town) and Jagaa Creative Common Ground
SUPPORTED BY: KHOJ International Artists' Association, Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council, Anthology Film Archives, International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) & Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Center (CFMDC)
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, the father of the western avant garde independent film movement, presented by his wife and collaborator Pola Chapelle Mekas. The Artist in focus programmes will showcase the 16mm films of avant garde feminist filmmaker Joyce Wieland from Canada, and the fantastical works of Toronto-based German-Indian artist Oliver Husain. The competition programme presents a fresh selection of international films and videos. Indian Sonic Research Organisation (ISRO) from Bangalore, alongwith artists ANYMA & Marc Duseiller from Switzerland, will conduct an open workshop on DIY Musical Instruments & Hacking Electronics, and will perform live with electronic music toys, creating visuals with the Videobass, a bass guitar that plays images instead of sounds.
Wallpaper* magazine shifted HQ to Mumbai and Delhi with one goal: to produce as true a portrait as possible of the most eye-popping, synapse-snapping, pulse-pushing place on the planet.
Checkout behind the scenes of the photo shoot by contemporary photographer - Bharat Sikka.
Ganesh pays homage to Mooshik the sacred rat before setting out with a torch and stick to kill 30 rodents every night. He reports to his boss, Behram Harda, who once dreamt of setting the silver screen ablaze with his boogying skills, but ended up maintaining records of the 2.8 million rats killed by his department over 35 years.
2000 young men compete in tests of speed, strength and accuracy to land one of the 30 job openings for night rat killers in India's commercial capital. The Rat Race, winds its way through the grimy underbelly of Mumbai, through dimly lit alleys, crowded markets and overflowing garbage bins, to tell the story of the city's rat killers. Through their tales of love, sacrifice and survival one glimpses the human face of development, amidst the rough and tumble of a rapidly changing metropolis.
Rat Race won the documentary co-production challenge at Mipdoc Cannes 2010.
WORD FROM THE DIRECTOR:
Have been getting quite a few messages recommending a film that has been making waves in the festival circuit which finally released this Friday – Dhobi Ghat. Smitha Patil’s son Prateik debuts as protagonist `Munna’ a dhobi by day and a rat killer by night…
Dhobi Ghat has been on my movie radar even before I knew about its connection with rat killers. Kiran Rao is a friend and senior of mine from film school in Delhi. I remember hanging out with her and her roommates in their rented barsaati in Sukh Dev Vihar – shadow puppets dangling from the window screens and coloured patch work frames pasted on the walls. I didn’t realize then that one year later when Kiran and her friends moved out, I would make the very same barsaati my home and creative cocoon for the next 2 years!
Kiran’s final year film is probably the only one I remember among the dozens I have viewed in the preview theatre at MCRC. It revolved around a Bengali couple preparing a meal of mustard fish. The film stood out for its mellow approach and the ability to create drama from the mundane…This is the same quality that pervades Dhobi Ghat which is a quiet and meditative journey rather than a dramatic storyline, a film that you experience rather than view. Watching Dhobi Ghat gave me a sense of déjà vu because of the storyline that links characters with spaces to ultimately weave a vivid tapestry of the city of Mumbai, an approach I have been following consciously over the last 18 months to create a narrative for The Rat Race.
I was a little nervous that Prateik’s role as a rat killer would kill some of the novelty in my documentary. Prateik as Munna’ essays the most endearing role in the film, chasing his Bollywood dreams and his love interest while he juggles the jobs that earn him his livelihood. His scene as a rat killer is a turning point in the film but only as a dramatic detail. Phew! Am I glad… The Rat Race truly proves that fact is often stranger than fiction. In a striking parallel to Dhobi Ghat, our protagonist 57 year old Behram Harda once dreamt of being a Bollywood dancer but he traded his boogeying skills for the security of a government job that entails counting the carcasses of dead rats every morning for the last 35 years. Watch our trailer and you will know why the audience at Cannes fell in love with his crackling energy, wit and humour. He is the reason that I decided I would make a documentary about rats even though I am terrified of rodents!
I am going to sign off in the words of Amir Khan in Dhobi Ghat “ To Mumbai – my muse, my whore, my beloved…” and also whisper under my breath “Back us up in our Rat Race to Cannes.” Amir Khan are you listening?!!
Check out the reward scheme for contributions to The Rat Race that have just gone up on the site. Thanks Paul, Debasis and Atin Bhai for vetting the legal terms and conditions.
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