[FSUG-Bangalore] [OT] Films for Freedom, Bangalore - August screenings

[Anivar Aravind]

This may be a good choice for the evenings before the GPLv3 event
contact: Sushma Veerappa <sushma at adkoli.net>


Films for Freedom, Bangalore
 will screen
 LOOSE CHANGE (2005)
 Director: Dylan Avery
 Duration: 81 minutes
 On Saturday, August 19
 and

 SEVEN ISLANDS AND A METRO (2006)
 Director: Madhusree Dutta
 Duration: 100 minutes
 On Sunday, August 20
 At 6.30pm
 At Centre for Film and Drama (CFD), Sona Towers, Millers Road (Ph- 22356563)

 Synopsis of 'Loose Change'
 'Loose Change' is the most provocative documentary on 9/11 on the market
 today. The film shows the direct connection between the attacks of September
 11, 2001, and the United States government. Evidence is derived from news
 footage, scientific fact, and testimony from survivors, including emergency
 first responders like New York City firefighters. This hard-hitting and
 compelling film argues that the US government not only had prior knowledge
 of the attacks but was complicit in carrying them out.
 Ruth Frankenberg, formerly Professor of American Studies at the University
 of California, and now an independent writer will introduce the film. She
 has written on race, racism and whiteness.  She has also published in the
 area of colonial and postcolonial discourses.

 Synopsis of 'Seven Islands and a Metro'
 The multilingual Bombay,  the Bombay of intolerance, the Bombay of closed
 mills, of popular culture, sprawling slums and real estate onslaughts, the
 metropolis of numerous ghettos, the El Dorado.  This film is a tale of the
 cities of Bom Bahia / Bombay / Mumbai, through a tapestry of fiction, cinema
 vérité, art objects, found footage, sound installation and literary texts.
 The non-fiction feature film is structured around imaginary debates between
 Ismat Chugtai and Sadat Hasan Manto, the two legendary writers who lived in
 this metropolis, over the art of chronicling these multi-layered overlapping
 cities. Shot mainly during the monsoon the film portrays some extremely
 beautiful yet ruthlessly violent features of Bombay which, generally, are
 not part of the popular narratives.
 Madhusree Dutta, the director of the film will be present for the screening.
 Her works include I Live in Behrampada, on a Muslim ghetto in the context of
 the Bombay riots which went on to receive the Filmfare Award for best
 documentary and Memories of Fear, on the relation between socialising of
 young girls and domestic violence which won the National Award for best
 documentary on social issues.

 As always, screenings are open to all.