Persistence Resistance 2012

FILMS | PREMIERES | CONVERSATIONS | INSTALLATIONS
		Persistence Resistance 2012 February 9 - 17, 2012 in Delhi at British Council | Arts Faculty, Delhi University North Campus | India International Centre | Max Mueller Bhawan
		Premiere  Mamta Murthy's Fried Fish, Chicken Soup and a Premiere Show  India Premiere  Micha Peled's Bitter Seeds, winner of the Green Screen competition Award at IDFA, the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam  Kersti Uibo's This is the Day (Estonia)  Delhi Premiere  K. R. Manoj's A Pestering Journey, winner of the Best Long Documentary at 4th IDSFFK;  Living like a Common Man by Mario Rutten, Sanderien Verstappen and Isabelle Makay Carl-A Fechner's The 4th Revolution - Energy Autonomy Animation films by graphic novelist Sarnath Banerjee will be be screened for the first time ever. The festival will present curated selections of Indian and German archives which will play in a circular loop in outdoor video parlours at the India International Centre (Feb 12 - 15). Exhibition  Elusive Truth, Evolving Medium: Evaluating Contemporary Political Documentary by Rattanamol Johal (in collaboration with KHOJ-IFA) Feb 9 - 15 at the Queens Gallery, British Council. Photographic Homage to Homai Vyarawalla by Sabeena Gadihoke at the India International Centre (Feb 12 - 15) The festival will also pay homage to Tareque Masud and Lucia Rikaki.  Persistence Resistance will, as always, present multiple screening and viewing practices. Along with screenings in auditorium, films will also be shown in simulated video parlours, in a multi hub video library and as installations, encompassing linear, circulatory, on-demand and transitory ways of screening and viewing.
		Schedule: magiclanternfoundation.org/persistence-resistance-2012/   Nksagar at 9:45 AM 0 comments Links to this post PRESS CONFERENCE on February 1, 2012 Film Festival is an exciting and unique space in many ways. Along with screenings in auditorium, films will also be shown in simulated video parlours, in a multi hub video library and as installations. It will premiere documentaries, screen award winning films, a few rarely seen films, curated sections from film archives from Germany and India; present installations, in-depth conversations with filmmakers and pay homage to Homai Vyarwalla, Tareque Masud and Lucia Rikaki. To speak about the festival and the films this year, the Curator of the Festival Ms. Gargi Sen (Director, MLF) along with Ms. Indrani Majumdar (Assistant Programme Officer, IIC) will address a PRESS CONFERENCE on February 1, 2012. The details are given below. Complete schedule and list of the screenings will also be released at the Conference. We request you to kindly send your reporter and photographer to cover the Press Conference. Venue: Press Club of India Date: February 1, 2012 Time: 4 pm Press Release:Magic Lantern Foundation held a Press Conference to announce the programme and schedule for it's annual film festival Persistence Resistance 2012 at the Press Club of India. Ms. Gargi Sen, from Magic Lantern Foundation and Ms. Indrani Majumdar, from India International Centre, addressed the conference. In its 5th edition Persistence Resistance 2012 has moved into new locations across the city and would be held in the British Council, India International Centre, Delhi University, North Campus and Max Mueller Bhavan. Additionally, it will screen films in auditorium, as installations, in video parlours in circular loops and in a multi-hub film library. The festival is curated and will present a 46 documentaries in all, including 15 film premieres. The festival will showcase films from USA, Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, Estonia and India. The inauguration of the festival will pay homage to Ms. Lucia Rikaki (film maker & Festival Director from Greece), Mr. Tareque Masud,(filmmaker from Bangladesh) and Ms. Homai Vyarawalla, (the first woman photographer in India.) The festival will screen a special package of five films from the archives of the erstwhile German studio, DEFA and never-seen-before animation films by the graphic novelist, Mr. Sarnath Banerjee. Fried Fish, Chicken Soup and a Premiere Show, by the young director Mamta Murthy would be screened as well as the IDPA, Green Screens Winner, Bitter Seeds by Micha Peled. Six in-depth conversations with filmmakers would be a highlight of the festival as well as 13 filmmakers will be present for Q&A after the screening of their films. The renowned environmentalist, Ms. Vandana Shiva would lead the discussion after the screening of Bitter Seeds at the British Council Theatre on 10 Feb at 8:50 pm and the director, Micha X Peled would join in via Skype from San Fransisco. In answer to a question from a journalist as to why the addition in the number of locations, Ms. Sen said that to ensure more people can attend the festival. Ms. Majumdar also explained that the homages would be done by Ms. Sabeena Gadihoke for Homai Vyarawalla and by Shohini Ghosh for Tareque Masud. To a question if Persistence Resistance is interested in young filmmakers, Ms. Sen said that a number of new and first time filmmakers works were being presented. In an answer to another question she replied that since 2008 Persistence Resistance has seen its audience grow steadily. And the most heartening aspect is that majority audience are the youth. The schedule of the festival can be accessed here: www.persistenceresistance.in Enquiries