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Experimenta India 2

24 June 2012 at 17.00–18.00
Iram Ghufran There Is Something in the Air 2011

Iram Ghufran There Is Something in the Air 2011

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  • Jan Villa
  • City Beyond
  • There Is Something in the Air

Jan Villa

Natasha Mendonca, India 2011, colour and b&w, sound, 16mm transferred to HD, 20min

After the monsoon floods in 2005 that submerged Bombay, the filmmaker returns to her native city to examine the personal impact of this 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 deeply implicates the personal. The destruction wreaked by the floods becomes a telling and a dismantling of other devastations and the sanctuaries of family and home. In its structure, Jan Villa is a vortex, drawing to its centre all that surrounds it.

City Beyond

Shreyasi Kar, India 2011, colour, sound, HD, 10min

City Beyond is a film that speculates about the lives led by inhabitants of a submerged civilisation. The superstructure has been recently discovered in the crevices of the ocean floor. The film moves through the submerged landscape, gathering glimpses of life, times and the end of a lost society.

There Is Something in the Air

Iram Ghufran, India 2011, colour, sound, HD, 29min

There Is Something in the Air is a call from the periphery of sanity. A series of dream narratives and accounts of spiritual possession as experienced by women ‘petitioners’ at the shrine of a Sufi saint in northern India. Drama unfolds via dreams, appearances of djinns and disappearances of women. The shrine becomes a space for expressions of longing and transgression. The film invites the viewer to a fantastical world, where fear and desire is experienced through dreams and ‘afflictions of air’. The shrine is a space where performance becomes the only rule of engagement, and one can begin to think about the possibilities that ‘insanity’ produces.

Programme duration 59 min

Presented in partnership with . Supported by Arts Council England, Film London and Western Union.

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Starr Cinema

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London SE1 9TG
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24 June 2012 at 17.00–18.00

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