Tag: Film

?We don?t want coal mine?

Documentary Film by Nasrin Siraj Annie

Duration: 23 Min.
Research, narration and direction: Nasrin Siraj Annie
Subject: Social movement against the establishment of an open pit coal mine in Northwest of Bangladesh.
Venue: Drik Gallery
Address: H# 58, R# 15A (new), Dhanmondi R/A
Date: 28 August, 2012
Time: 5:30 p.m
You are cordially invited
Article by Annie in Prothom Alo
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Related links:
Phulbari resistance blog
You cannot eat coal
Long March
Profits versus the poor

The World's Best Commercials, 2011-12


Coldplay’s haunting classic ‘The Scientist’ is performed by country music legend Willie Nelson for the soundtrack of the short film entitled, “Back to the Start.”
The film, by film-maker Johnny Kelly, depicts the life of a farmer as he slowly turns his family farm into an industrial animal factory before seeing the errors of his ways and opting for a more sustainable future.

“The more you watch Canal+, the more you love cinema”
Credits
Agency : BETC Paris
Director: Matthijs van Heijningen
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Under African Skies

An Album About Healing, Made in a Wounded Land
?Under African Skies,? About the Paul Simon Album ?Graceland?

NYT Critics’ Pick

Luise Gubb

Paul Simon with Ladysmith Black Mambazo in ?Under African Skies,? a documentary about his 1986 album, ?Graceland.?

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Published: May 10, 2012
Music, politics and race: To what degree does a style belong to the people who developed it? At what point, if any, does musical fusion become musical theft? Is the greater good served by a noble project if it involves the flouting of solemn rules? And once the rules have changed, and the noise has died down, how much do these debates really matter?Those questions echo throughout?Under African Skies,? Joe Berlinger?s enlightening documentary about the making of ?Graceland,? Paul Simon?s masterwork, on the occasion of its 25th anniversary. The film, by the co-director of the ?Paradise Lost? trilogy, does an excellent job of recapitulating the controversies surrounding the album?s creation without bearing down too heavily on old news, while subtly taking Mr. Simon?s side against his critics. Continue reading “Under African Skies”

Residency with Arts Council of Wales

    • Residency opportunity at Centre for Alternative Technology in collaboration with the Arts Council of Wales
      Closing date: 12 Jul 2012
    • Centre for Alternative Technology, Machynlleth, Wales SY20 9AZ
    • Bursary: ?24,000 for twelve months
      Starting August 2012
      This residency is part of a new strategic partnership between the Arts Council of Wales & the Centre for Alternative Technology CAT is inviting applications from, both UK and international artists working in film, photography or digital media, who wish to develop their practice through working at CAT for a period of twelve months by engaging with its research projects and its community of staff.
      Hosted by CAT and funded by the Arts Council of Wales, the residency offers the opportunity to access time and space away from their usual practice to work in the context of a cutting edge research project. The residency will provide a time to absorb the cultural implications of CAT?s Zero Carbon Britain (ZCB) work,?www.zerocarbonbritain.org?both through the findings of work to date and in joining the team of researchers during the current phase of their investigation; providing an opportunity to meet new people, sourcing new material and experiencing life in a new location. The residency will also allow the artist(s) to interpret, explore and engage with the wider learning context offered through CAT?s ?living laboratory? of hands-on projects.
      Deadline for applications 12th July 2012?
      Interviews scheduled for 23rd July 2012
    • For detail of the brief and how to apply please visit:
      content.cat.org.uk/index.php/brief-for-applicants?or www.artswales.org.uk/CAT
    • You can also download the Artist brief below:
      Zero Carbon Britain – Artist brief

 

Rubbing shoulders: Aung San Suu Kyi, Abbas Kiarostami, Gayatri Spivak

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian literary critic, a theorist, and a University Professor, the highest honor for professors at Columbia University, where she is a founding member of the school's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Professor Spivak was speaking at a seminar at Dhaka University, organised by Naya Krishi, a farmers' cooperative in Bangladesh. ?: Shahidul Alam/Drik/Majority World

She was witty, connected, caring and sharp. Seamlessly moving between colloquial Bangla, bhodrolok Bangla and English, Spivak mesmerised, but did a few ticking offs too. All in her charming style so it took you a while to work out that a steam roller had gone over you. It was standing room only in packed seminar room at Dhaka University. Spivak was one of five visiting speakers, but clearly the one they had all come to see.
I was lucky as I had just returned from Tehran, when Rahnuma told me of the event, and Chulie and Yan managed to get my 100mm macro lens to me in time and I pedalled off to Dhaka University.
A couple of days back, I had made my way to Chiraz Square in Tehran to meet up with my old friend, the brilliant film maker and photographer Abbas Kiarostami. I returned with an arm load of books, including his early masterpiece, Snow White. Here are a couple of pictures from the book:
From the book: Snow White. Photo: Abbas Kiarostami

 
From the book Snow White. Photo: Abbas Kiarostami

The meeting earlier with Aung San Suu Kyi, in Myanmar was opportunistic. But hey with people like that, one doesn’t care how it works out šŸ™‚
 
 
 
 

Presentation by Leila Lak

Pathshala is pleased to invite you for a presentation by Leila Lak, a British-Iranian documentary filmmaker and journalist.


Leila Lak has worked for major international broadcasters including Al Jazeera English, BBC, HBO and the Discovery Channel. She has also written feature stories for newspapers such as The Guardian in the United Kingdom. She has worked extensively across four continents on stories about human rights, social justice and development. Over the past 12 years she has covered many of the major international stories for both news and documentaries. She is currently running the communications and press office for a busy UK based NGO.

Leila Lak

Date: 02.06.2012
Day: Saturday
Time: 7:15 pm
Venue: Pathshala (Room # 1)
The presentation is open for all.

INTERNATIONAL CRAFT FILM CONTEST FOR STUDENTS

The Entries should be 8 to 10 min of documented craft on the following topics only

  • Crafts-? A fight for survival.
  • Crafts- The magic of creation.
  • Crafts-? A signpost of culture.
  • The entries can be in English or in any other language.? All ?entries must be subtitled in English.
  • The Entry forms and other details can be downloaded from WCC website.
  • There is no entry fee.

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'Jai Bhim Comrade'

A film by Anand Patwardhan

The ongoing atrocity of caste.
Anand Patwardhan’s new film “Jai Bhim Comrade” took 14 years to?complete. Beginning with an incident at Ramabai Colony in Mumbai where?10 Dalits were shot dead by the police in 1997, the film goes on to?explore the music of protest of those who were treated as?”untouchables” by a caste hierarchy that has ruled the Indian?sub-continent for thousands of years.
Best film: Mumbai International Film Festival, India
Best film: Film South Asia Kathmandu, Nepal

Songs about photographs


14:12Ringo Starr-Photographby?TomorrowNeverKnows24608,734views

21:02ENNIO MORRICONE -“Le Fotografie” (1971)by?MorriconeRocks36,747views

33:43Guy Clark “My Favorite Picture of You”by?MusicFog5,442views

42:42Bobby Mitchell and The Toppers – Send Me Your Pictureby?9thWardJukebox206views

56:34Ultravox – Mr X 1980by?dmimsm118,714views

65:25Lotus Eaters – “First Picture Of You”by?mandaluyongboy265,026views

76:22Loudon Wainwright – The Picture / Menby?homelessbrother3,228views

83:04SCENE THROUGH THE EYE OF THE LENS(1967)by?philipsmovies2,227views

96:43No Bird Sing- Plastic Linesby?iiThinkAbout10,404views

102:47″Spider” John Koerner & Willie Murphy — Magazine Ladyby?Sidnoobis245views

113:41’Picture In A Frame’ -Tom Waitsby?Costign60,227views
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Archiving 1971

Date & Time: 12 February, 2012 from 11am to 1pm
Venue: Jatiya Press Club, Dhaka (Conference Room)
The programme will also be online live at www.drik.tv
History, at least in its initial form is generally written by the victor. But who is the victor in a war? How does one value a memory? What purpose does an artifact serve? Each archive is unique; its character shaped on those who set it up, and those who use it. From a photographer?s perspective, the war of 1971 was unique in other ways too. The events leading up to it were documented almost entirely by local photographers. They were themselves caught up in the struggles they were recording. It was not a story that international media neither knew nor was interested in. As such, the immediate aftermath of the crackdown on the 25th March was hardly recorded. For local photographers it was much too dangerous to be out there with a camera. Many of the foreign journalists were locked up in Hotel Intercontinental in Dhaka. It was only the few who managed to sneak out, or film through hotel windows that had tangible records of that fateful night. Others, who recorded those moments, were amateurs who took phenomenal risks in preserving the only visual records of the atrocities. Missing are the subtle nuanced observations. Ordinary people, trying to survive. The euphoria and hope of an expectant nation being replaced overnight by the terror of living under occupation, was a transformation that went unrecorded.
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