Bombay Talkies | 4 short films

IOU Project | Kavita Parmar

Kavita Parmar is a fashion designer, serial entrepreneur, founder and creative director of the IOU Project. In her talk she stresses the importance of Loving one's Work as a crucial ingredient for an healthy and creative life.

Tentative Collective | Karachi

The 'Tentative Collective' is a nomadic collective of people who share resources to create critical works of art in public places. These works of art aim to excite the public imagination and create new spaces for social engagement. Our projects strive to be collaborative, site sensitive, and inclusive to different strata of society. We value free public space, engage in the reclaiming of what should be collective property, and strive to make something special out of makeshift, tentative and mundane opportunities in everyday life.

Based in Karachi, Pakistan and Albany, New York, the 'Tentative Collective' wants to create conceptually rich experiences to engage with and explore the cities we inhabit.

New leaders can propose and coordinate projects, using the collective as a support network that can be mobilized to get projects executed quickly. All works made as part of the collective will be co-owned by the project leader and the collective. In this way the group will be flexible and open to new ideas and new members to promote an infectious creativity that can cross boundaries.

More Info on: http://tentativecollective.com/

Graphic Novelist | Amruta Patil

Luminous Matter | at Studio X (Jan 25th, 2013)

Dystopia and Urban Imagination  (21st to 25th January 2013), Studio X, Bombay.

Luminous Matter is stunning steampunk stop motion in which two species of luminescent insectoid creatures must find each other and in a dark dystopian world. They scuttle around in the mechanical darkness bearing a unique luminous character that unites them and will enable them to evolve.

“Science Fiction film has always presented us with extraordinary images of our living environments whether traveling to the past, present or future. In this series of film screenings we explore the dialectic between contemporary urbanity and the seemingly disparate or frighteningly real images that these films present in terms of their conceptual representation of urban life. On the last day, there will be a film screening of Luminous Matter along with an interactive session discussing the intersections between the science fiction film genre and the urban condition.”

Cheers 

Andrew. 

andrew@compositus.in

                                          A still from Luminous Matter.

Documenta 13 | Amar Kanwar

Motherland Magazine

http://www.motherlandmagazine.com/

Red Earth Comes to Bombay | Design Mela

endocrine films | indian artist video portraits

Artist/Director Vaibhav Raj Shah documented young Indian Contemporary Artists T Venkanna, Chandni Vora, Sandeep Kumar Singh and more as part of artist video portraits. The series has been titled 'The Adjective' and produced by ENDOCRINE FILMS. For more, checkout his facebook page -- https://www.facebook.com/EndocrineFilms  

The Hinglish Project

Welcome to 'The Hinglish Project'. Through this unique font design, you can tell the phonetic sound of a Hindi character by looking at the corresponding Roman letter superimposed on it. 

Hindi is written in the Devanagri script, which has many more characters than the English alphabet. This font, then, cannot teach you how to read words as they are spelt in Hindi, but its aim is to demystify individual letters in its script and make India more approachable. 

Despite the superficial distinctiveness of English and Hindi, the two borrow from the same phonetic pool - they both belong to the Indo-European group of languages. This font design playfully highlights these commonalities. To quote a now-popular phrase, "We're same same, but different!"

www.thehinglishproject.com 

Fresh & Local | Urban Farming in Bombay

Fresh & Local is a movement to facilitate urban farming in Mumbai, India.

Started in the spring of 2010, in response to the lack of fresh and organic produce, and the lack of resources and support for urban farming in the city. The organization researches and develops best practices, design gardens and garden products, host gardening workshops and work in partnership with NGOs and individuals to set up kitchen gardens across the city. We believe that by creating replicable models of urban farming we can inspire the changes needed to improve access to quality food for all Mumbai residents.

To support them for their next big project 'Flyover Farm' checkout their Kickstarter page here --- http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/495230553/flyover-farm?ref=live

Get connected on Facebook here --- https://www.facebook.com/freshandlocalindia

To volunteer contact --- Liam Rees +91 9930829762 liam@freshandlocal.org

Unbox Festival 2012

More info -- www.unboxfestival.com
Photos by -- Mattancherry Studio

Palolem, Goa

MASI travels to Palolem end of this month for a photo project and look what we found -- A beautiful video on Palolem, Goa.

Palolem from Phoric on Vimeo.

Delhi in a Day | Free Indie Film screening

Delhi In A Day will be screened in Mumbai at the NCPA on Friday 20th 2012.

Free, entry on a first-come, first-served basis.

Trailer --

Artist Tracy Moffatt

Being Indira Gandhi.

Gandhi in Africa 1908-1909

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.

AFP PHOTO/PABALLO THEKISO

Innovational Talks | Inspirational Talks & Videos | Motivational Speakers - The INK Conference 2011

http://inktalks.com
The first-ever INK (Innovation & Knowledge) Conference, in association with TED, ended on a high note on December 12, 2010, with a number of celebrity speakers, influential attendees and passionate young INK Fellows celebrating the power of great ideas and the importance of keeping meaningful conversations alive in today's fast-paced life.

VOGUE INDIA

Film Noir from Conde Nast (India) on Vimeo.

Paris-Delhi-Bombay | Contemporary Indian Art at Centre Pompidou

Paris-Delhi-Bombay is an exciting show on contemporary India, up at the Centre Pompidou in Paris until September 19th. The exhibition explores contemporary India through the eyes of both Indian and French artists.

Paris - Delhi - Bombay... by centrepompidou

Stations of a Pause | Jitish Kallat | March 22nd, 2011

Jitish Kallat
Stations of a Pause
March 22 - May 10, 2011

After a gap of over three years since his last solo in Mumbai, Jitish Kallat will open a show at Chemould Prescott Road from 22nd March to 10th May 2011.

"Jitish Kallat’s new solo showcases the full range of his artistic practice; addressing the core themes of sustenance, survival and mortality in the contemporary urban environment, the show incorporates photography and large format paintings", says Shireen Gandhy of Chemould Prescott Road.

One of the key sections of the show at Chemould Prescott Road addresses a very personal story. Kallat’s 750-part photographic work, titled "Epilogue", tracing, his father's life through all the moons he saw from the day he was born on 2nd April 1936 to the day of his death on 2nd Dec 1998. Measuring his father's lifespan with the approximately 22,000 moons that he saw in the 63 years of his life; every moon is replaced with the image of a waxing or waning meal, marking the cycle of life itself as periodical rotations of fullness and emptiness.

Also part of the exhibition will be a new series of paintings, titled, Untitled (Stations of a Pause). A continued series of large scale paintings representing candid imagery of the ubiquitous Bombayite.