No Man’s Land / Everybody’s Land – Glaring in Defiance
Join us at T2F for 3 days of film screenings exploring partitions, on the
occasion of Lines of Control, an exhibition project by Green Cardamom
30th January 2009 – 1st February 2009
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“Last night I dreamt of this river. Come monsoon and it swells with defiance. Playful, unruly and rebellious it refuses to circumscribe the land on its either side. It runs amok upsetting all and assuming nothing except its own freedom. Seeing it make a mockery of its given role of a boundary, even I want to re-draw my maps every season.” Sequence from “Temporary Loss of Consciousness”, D: Monica Bhasin; India – Bangladesh Border, Padma River
No Man’s Land / Everybody’s Land – Glaring in Defiance is a series of screenings that leads us to different corners of histories, creating a space to consider the lines we live by. No Man’s Land borrows from Saadat Hasan Manto’s stories – the choice to refuse a given logic, a given order of the sensical and the non-sensical. This series of interwoven films creates an unwieldy narrative over the three days, it does not follow a nostalgic path nor seek a representation of historical events, instead, No Man’s Land offers a cinematic exploration of partitions, borders and walls.
Images: Seaview, D: Paul Rowley, Ireland 2008
The screenings offer a dialogue between films from different geographical and time contexts – South Asia, the Middle East and Europe. This dialogue is not just to accentuate known historical and political relations between those places but perhaps to find unforeseen ones.
No Man’s Land is an experiment and an invitation to go on a cinematic journey. A travel that might foster an exilic state of mind where individual and collective stories, sounds and images, make us stop and glare at the fabric of lines we encounter; at lines that enforce departures, fragmentations, occupations and lines that seek to find old and new relations.
Download Concept Note by Nicole Wolf | Download the Screening Schedule
Friday 30th January 2009
5:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Welcome and introduction to the film programme and its relation to the exhibition Lines of Control, by Nicole Wolf
TEMPORARY LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
D: Monica Bhasin, 35 min, India 2005
THE HALFMOON FILES
D: Philip Scheffner, 87 min, Germany 2007
Talks and discussion with Hammad Nasar, Kamila Shamsie, Adnan Madani and Nicole Wolf
HAD-ANHAD: Journeys with Ram & Kabir
D: Shabnam Virmani, 105 min, India 2008
Saturday 31st January 2009
12:00 noon – 8:30 pm
THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WALLS
D: Eyal Weizman, 35 min, UK 2008
A WORLD APART WITHIN FIFTEEN MINUTES
D: Enas Muthafar, 4 min, Jerusalem 2006
NECESSARY JOURNEYS
D: Oreet Ashery, 14 min, UK 2005
EIN-BLICK/ IN-SIGHT
D: Gerd Conradt, 10 min, Germany 1989
AFTER THE FALL / NACH DEM FALL
D: Frauke Sandig & Eric Black, 85 min, Germany 1999
SEAVIEW
D: Paul Rowley, 82 min, Ireland 2007
THE WALL
D: Simone Bitton, 95 min, France/Israel 2004
Sunday 1st February 2009
12:00 noon – 9:00 pm
WAY BACK HOME
D: Supriyo Sen, 120 min, India 2003
THE HOUSE ON GULMOHAR AVENUE
D: Samina Mishra, 30 min, India 2005
MANY STORIES OF LOVE AND HATE
D: Shyamal Karmakar, 52 min, India 2008
THE SUBVERSIVE CAMERA, THE SUPER-8 FILM SCENE IN THE GDR
D: Cornelia Klauss, 44 min, Germany 1996
KONRAD! SPRACH DIE FRAU MAMA
D: Ramona Koeppel-Welsh, 9 min, GDR 1988
NERVUS RERUM
D: Otolith Group, 30 min, Palestine/UK 2008
Discussion with Amar Kanwar via Webcam
LIGHTNING TESTIMONIES
D: Amar Kanwar, 115 min, India 2007
Final Round of Discussion with Hammad Nasar, Amar Kanwar (if
available online) and Nicole Wolf
Venue: The Second Floor (T2F)
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Seats are limited and will be available on a ‘first come, first served’ basis. No reservations.
Kara Film Fest would wait forever but I know T2F won’t in any case. Yaay!!
And what the ticket costs?? I mean donation?
@Raheel :D See you on the weekend.
@M Patel: Entry is free but it would be great if you could donate whatever you can.
I’m happy my film ‘MANY STORIES OF LOVE & HATE’ which is just over in January, 2009, will be screened in Pakistan. This will be the FIRST EVER SCREENING(you may call it premire) of the film. Please let me know whether you like it! Love.