Schedule for the Beijing Leg

You Don’t Belong: Pasts and Futures of Indian Cinema & India-China Dialogue of Film and Social Thought

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Curated by: Ashish Rajadhyaksha
Hosted by: Hanart TZ Gallery/Embassy Of India, Beijing/School of Intermedia Art, China Academy of Art
In collaboration with: Magic Lantern Foundation, New Delhi/Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore/Consulate General of India, Shanghai/Consulate General of India, Guangzhou/Wenhui Daily/Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Shanghai University
Sponsored by: Moonchu Foundation/Pinnacle Group/ZEE TV

1. Experiments with the Moving Image@Iberia Center for Contemporary Art (Zone E06, 798 Art District, No.4 Jiuxianqiao Road)
2. The Documentary: Testimony, Home, City@Medium Theatre (or “Zhongfang”/”中放”), Beijing Film Academy (No. 4 W Tucheng Road)
3. Telling Stories@Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (798 Art District, No.4 Jiuxianqiao Road)

IBERIA CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: Experiments with the Moving Image
25-Nov Fri. 3:00 PM-3:45 PM Press Conference of Indian Film Festival 45 MINUTES
4:30 PM-5:00 PM Opening Ceremony: Film Festival + Iberia exhibitions 30 MINUTES
5:10 PM-5:50 PM Buffet 40 MINUTES
6:00 PM-7:30 PM SIDDHESHWARI (Mani Kaul) 90 MINUTES
26-Nov Sat. Long term Cultural Legacies and the Independent Cinema
10:00 AM-1:00 PM India-China Forum on Social Thought, Session 1: Hosted by Kuan-Hsing Chen Main Presentation: Ashish Rajadhyaksha, ‘Ancient’ Cinemas? A Theory of How Cinema Works within Ancient Civilizations (60 min) Respondents: Dai Jinhua 戴锦华, Du Qingchun 杜庆春, 180 MINUTES
2:00 PM-5:00 PM India-China Forum on Social Thought, Session 2: Hosted by Johnson Chang Main Presentation: Moinak Biswas, ‘Body, Time and Rhythms of Production in Indian Cinema’ (60 min) Respondents: Dong Bingfeng 董冰峰, Zhang Xianmin 张献民 180 MINUTES
6:30 PM-8:04 PM YOU DON’T BELONG (Spandan Banerjee) 94 MINUTES
27-Nov Sun. India: Landscape/History
10:30 AM-10:45 AM Introduction to Films: Ashish Rajadhyaksha 15 min
10:45 AM-11:40 AM INDIA 67 (S. Sukhdev) 55 MINUTES
11:45 PM-12:20 PM TEMPORARY LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS (Monica Bhasin) 35 MINUTES
2:00 PM-2:22 PM TURNING (Vivan Sundaram) 14 MINUTES
FLOTAGE (Vivan Sundaram) 8 MINUTES
2:30 PM-2:52 PM MAN EATS ROCK (Nikhil Chopra/Munir Kabani) 22 MINUTES
India: Cinema, Apparatus, Debris
3:00 PM-3:35 PM PARIS AUTUMN (Pushpamala N) 35 MINUTES
3:35 PM-3:52 PM HISTORY IS A SILENT FILM (K.M. Madhusudhanan) 17 MINUTES
3:52 PM-3:59 PM RAZOR, BLOOD AND OTHER TALES (K.M. Madhusudhanan) 7 MINUTES
4:05 PM-5:00 PM HAWA MAHAL (Vipin Vijay) 55 MINUTES
5:00 PM-5:21 PM VAKRATUNDA SWAHA (Ashish Avikuntak) 21 MINUTES
28-Nov Mon. Long term Cultural Legacies and the Independent Cinema (continued)
2:00 PM-2:15 PM Introduction to Films: Gargi Sen 15 min
2:15 PM-2:40 PM SAA (R.V. Ramani) 25 MINUTES
2:40 PM-4:01 PM DEATH LIFE ETC. (Arghya Basu) 81 MINUTES
4:05 PM-5:10 PM BHAVANTARANA (Kumar Shahani) 65 MINUTES
5:15 PM-6:36 PM NAINSUKH (Amit Dutta) 81 MINUTES
BEIJING FILM ACADEMY: The Documentary: Testimony, Home, City
29-Nov Tue. The Documentary As Testimony
2:00 PM-2:15 PM Introduction to Films: Ashish Rajadhyaksha 15 min
2:15 PM-3:07 PM SOMETHING LIKE A WAR (Deepa Dhanraj) 52 MINUTES
3:10 PM-4:16 PM AUTUMN’S FINAL COUNTRY (Sonia Jabbar) 66 MINUTES
6:00 PM-8:19 PM JASHN-E-AZADI: HOW WE CELEBRATE FREEDOM (Sanjay Kak) 139 MINUTES
8:25 PM-9:55 PM Filmmakers’ Round Table 1: Documentary Images and the Language of Rights 90 MINUTES
30-Nov Wed. The Privacy of the Home
2:00 PM-2:15 PM Introduction to Films: Gargi Sen 15 min
2:15 PM-3:39 PM NAACH (Saba Diwan) 84 MINUTES
3:45 PM-4:50 PM I’M THE VERY BEAUTIFUL (Shyamal Karmakar) 65 MINUTES
6:00 PM-7:03 PM SNAPHOTS FROM A FAMILY ALBUM (Avijit Mukul Kishore) 63 MINUTES
7:05 PM-8:35 PM Filmmakers’ Round Table 2: Bringing the Documentary Home: Domesticity and Documentary Film 90 MINUTES
1-Dec Thu. New Urban Cultures
2:00 PM-2:15 PM Introduction to Films: Gargi Sen 15 min
2:15 PM-3:33 PM THE CITY BEAUTIFUL (Rahul Roy) 78 MINUTES
4:05 PM-5:19 PM TALES OF THE NIGHT FAIRIES  (Shohini Ghosh) 74 MINUTES
6:00 PM-7:52 PM JAHAJI MUSIC (Surabhi Sharma) 112 MINUTES
8:00 PM-9:30 PM Filmmakers’ Round Table 3: Reconsidering the City: Migration, Urbanity, Travel 90 MINUTES
2-Dec Fri. 2:00 PM-5:00 PM India-China Form on Film and Social Thought, Session 3 Main Presentation: Paromita Vohra, ‘Dotting the I’
180 MINUTES
6:00 PM-7:34 PM PARTNERS IN CRIME (Paromita Vohra) 94 MINUTES
7:40 PM-9:10 PM Filmmakers’ Round Table 4: On the ecology of independent filmmaking 90 MINUTES
UCCA:  Telling Stories
30-Nov Wed. 7:00 PM-8:45 PM STHANIYA SANGBAAD (Arjun Gourisaria/Moinak Biswas) and discussion with the Director 105 MINUTES
1-Dec Thu. 7:00 PM- 9:44 PM STRUCTURES OF MEMORY (Vivan Sundaram) 30 MINUTES
KOMAL GANDHAR (Ritwik Ghatak) 134 MINUTES
2-Dec Fri. 3:00 PM-4:50 PM SUICIDE NOTE (Kiran Subbaiah) 25 MINUTES
GANDU (Q) 85 MINUTES
5:00 PM-6:30 PM Filmmakers’ Round Table 5: Subaltern Life Hosted by Cheng Kai 程凯Discussants: Q, Tao Qingmei 陶庆梅, Wu Xiaoli 吴晓黎, Yang Chunyu 杨春宇
 90 MINUTES
3-Dec Sat. 10:30 AM-12:03 PM HERBERT (Suman Mukhopadhyay) 93 MINUTES
1:00 PM-3:50 PM India-China Form on Film and Social Thought, Session 4 Main Presentation: Lawrence Liang, From Cinema to the Moving Image and back: Cinematic and Digital Ontologies (60 min) Hosted by Chen Koonchung 陈冠中, Respondents: He Zhaotian 贺照田, Xi Chuan 西川 170 MINUTES
4:00 PM-6:26 PM MORALITY TV & LOVING JEHAD (Paromita Vohra) 30 MINUTES
LOVE SEX AUR DHOKHA (Dibakar Bannerjee) 116 MINUTES
4-Dec Sun. 11:00 AM-1:08 AM NO SMOKING (Anuraag Kashyap) 128 MINUTES