tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13023041374210581272024-03-06T00:49:16.563+00:00TRANSMISSIONPatachitra Artists (West Bengal) and Transit\ion Collective (London) collaborated on TRANSFORMATION, a two week workshop culminating in an exhibition in Kolkata, India. During that time we made "Premise..".
Posts on this blog follow the development of the work after coming back to London. They are not always in a chronological order, rather that they reflect our thoughts moving between the past and the present.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1302304137421058127.post-90974943386066300342011-01-20T02:04:00.002+00:002011-01-20T02:16:13.449+00:00"Premise ..."- Trailer<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); font-family: verdana; font-size: 48px; white-space: pre-wrap; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(100, 95, 94); font-size: 10px; "><object width="400" height="226"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=18974555&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0"><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=18974555&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="226"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/18974555">Premise... - Trailer</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user5786897">magda fabianczyk</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p></span><br /></span>MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1302304137421058127.post-79597569537644152532010-12-09T01:05:00.005+00:002010-12-09T01:22:50.081+00:00<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline; "></span><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline; "></span><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline; "></span><br /></span><span style="text-decoration: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/16964928" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe></span><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/16964928"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In India Between The Light And The Dark (english version)</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> from </span><a href="http://vimeo.com/user2005029"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Tomas Krupa</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> on </span><a href="http://vimeo.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Vimeo</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">.</span></p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">This film was made by three Slovakian students that I met during my first hour in India. I arrived in Mumbai at around 1am and after booking into one of the cheap guesthouses I went for a walk. It was dark, Mumbai was asleep, someone let me into a dark room that was supposed to be an Internet café. For a moment I became scared of the darkness and the stranger who was leading me through the space. Then another door opened and when I walked in it turned out to be a bright room with computers and a group of westerners. I felt relived to see them.<br /><br />They were traveling through India, filming a documentary. The film was supposed to be some sort of record of their journey. It was their first time in India too. </span><div class="im"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Without an initial plan, I decided where to go each morning. I was meeting different people on my way everyday. So did the filmmakers. I often followed the same track as they did (the tourist track) encountering similar situations to the ones they encountered. However, at the time it felt as if it was my own trail, a very special one.<br /><br />I have returned to India two times after that trip. Both times to work on an art project. How different India and Indian people became in my eyes. How complex, sometimes difficult to understand. The class divisions, the inequality of life and my own presence there all puzzled me. I still have many of the same questions.<br /><br />What I find very interesting is that by trying to understand "there" I am inevitably decoding "here".<br /><br />I also frequently wonder about the words "cultural differences". Is it that we sometimes use them to cover things up? Explaining things, without really explaining anything. Rather, getting rid of responsibility, or discomfort.<br /><br />I've wondered off a little. I posted the film because it seems to picture an honest way, that first time in a land, which feels "exotic". While aiming to see as much as you can, decoding and attempting to understand you are equally falling into </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family:Baskerville;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">cli</span><o:hsb><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">ché</span></o:hsb></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> that are constructed, often unconsciously, by your own prejudices.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></div>MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1302304137421058127.post-39761902636844296012010-12-04T19:38:00.000+00:002010-12-04T19:39:11.066+00:00Meeting Monimala and Jakub in London<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ8kv3qh706ZegIIovdIQ5ZwxUV3TIgs8S6BUiv22tKcm1ryzRqs04hokUBm3QVXcpvxhQpH7Ju9bosor7DLkQVUvHN6n29iHM6vRQQq0vJx816xyTBvJvlUNxmfVdiEkJcagYb0dQM40/s1600/155817_10150331600830328_526275327_15915296_4019221_n.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ8kv3qh706ZegIIovdIQ5ZwxUV3TIgs8S6BUiv22tKcm1ryzRqs04hokUBm3QVXcpvxhQpH7Ju9bosor7DLkQVUvHN6n29iHM6vRQQq0vJx816xyTBvJvlUNxmfVdiEkJcagYb0dQM40/s400/155817_10150331600830328_526275327_15915296_4019221_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546912746244288722" style="display: block; 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margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px;">Two weeks ago we spent a day with Monimala and Jakub, two Patachitra artists that are currently visiting the UK to promote their art. They are visiting the UK as part of a programme to promote Indian folk-art that is organised by</span></span><a href="http://Banglanatak.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px;">Banglanatak.com</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px;">.</span></span></div></span></span><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px;">We have been looking forward to this meeting, as we haven't been in touch with the Patachitra since we left India in April. We did feel apprehensive about communicating with Monimala and Jakub as we don’t speak Bengali and they speak very little English. Considering our translator was only able to stay for an hour we did surprisingly well! With a lot of pointing and drawing in the air...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px;">We were of course limited in our ability to share our thoughts, and we were not able to ask all the questions we intended to. Sometimes we would say, "ok, ok...” yet feeling that something was left unclear or perhaps feeling we were being misunderstood.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px;">That day we visited various contemporary art galleries in London. When we visited the Patua in India, they had presented their work and the works that had inspired them. Now we wanted to show a little bit of our life and what inspired our work. We visited art galleries that showed different approaches to making and presenting art in London and took them to places that show how we live and where we come from.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px;">That evening we watched "Premise - ..." at Niels's house and after dinner Monimala sang Bengali songs. Unfortunately, we couldn't think of any songs to sing in return. Is our culture less expressive?</span></span></div><div class="im"><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px;"><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; "><div style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px;">A day like this really makes me think about how momentary meetings like these are and how much we could all learn from them. We’re dressed in a different way, wer’e born and raised in a different culture, most of the things we’re used to are different, and yet, yesterday we kept saying: "I know what you mean", "I understand"... There was some sort of acceptance, kindness towards our differences. Those differences became reasons to talk, to compare our day-to-day realities, to exchange various points of view.</span></span></span></div></span></div></span>MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1302304137421058127.post-49515409258058171612010-11-28T19:55:00.003+00:002010-11-28T21:03:58.376+00:00Transition giving talk at Studio 21 in Kolkata<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMKdTsg2G4FXlt9yCyQ-7vayBE7LZWJJ9fGS1VE835nEDT6GBUNwEG_WsI8jCsMA8fD6dgz9Iu7LcN98At2a1eAcYPZu4_PHk6qomEG1Hc8QdTRCcOHuEpnyaftuhYikGvL_rMJhsq1ZA/s1600/25576_1115475102972_1709814701_212451_6955295_n.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMKdTsg2G4FXlt9yCyQ-7vayBE7LZWJJ9fGS1VE835nEDT6GBUNwEG_WsI8jCsMA8fD6dgz9Iu7LcN98At2a1eAcYPZu4_PHk6qomEG1Hc8QdTRCcOHuEpnyaftuhYikGvL_rMJhsq1ZA/s400/25576_1115475102972_1709814701_212451_6955295_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5544692521769896530" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Tsh7_aNsB4uxxkYQ59YUJyXCdgceFb_p3eUhqpDO0CpktQIMN-kPHSVbz0qn9maDpH38YK26wvZbU9nRLYaEf05p7tFQBqobo0ZE61GV39ZFHXJVCthAKqvP8hH14CwzccJ-gJZ_uow/s1600/23967_420364226322_624006322_5655574_7961764_n.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipez50HFY7SK4zFGNh8w9BaAQSbBfeENlt8zw0VOXw56bfzasJGumVwUmGpWaCBpcU9XTHsKXLK7HxSXBE_ET1f2rcjOplLLsaCqvwDMTT9G2o_Uv1GrKDRgY9E6Mw_g8tyjx0XwI2-so/s400/IMG_2185.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5544251757138668162" /></a>MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1302304137421058127.post-9481986807693938522010-11-09T23:10:00.000+00:002010-11-09T23:10:43.775+00:00Series of questions for Patua<ul style="text-align: justify;"><li style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How do the Patua see the work? What, in their conception of the project, is <i>the work</i> ? Where do they allocate 'weight'</li>
<li style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What do the Patua think about the project</li>
<li style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What was the most important part of the project for them (another way of asking where they allocate 'weight')</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How would they feel about us showing the work again?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How would they feel about us reformulating the work?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Who does the work belong to? Does the work belong to anyone?<br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Is there anything they would like to change or would have done differently</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Would they like to continue with it?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Do they think it is finished?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Were our actions clear to them? Did they feel happy about the way we worked? </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Did they feel we understood them? And how they work?</span></li>
</ul>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1302304137421058127.post-5219593276355248452010-11-09T22:47:00.000+00:002010-11-09T22:47:05.156+00:00Designing an apparatus for watching the films<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We are currently discussing designing an autonomous structure to watch the films in/ from for future installations. Previous installations presented the entire process of the project as installation, spanning several rooms, with significant emphasis on the film as the final piece. </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">By designing an apparatus for viewing the films we will , to some extent, be reformulating the work. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Before outlining a brief there are some questions and points that we've touched on in conversation, but haven't yet discussed in detail. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How would positioning the film within an architectural structure (that we design) affect the film?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Will the structure serve the films? Or will the films be subservient to the structure?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The structure will go some way to dictating the manner in which the film is viewed/ received. The viewer may be subservient to the structure.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We are showing them how to read the project. Giving it form. Allocating 'weight' </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In generating ideas for the design how do we engage more with the content of the films? Should we avoid being too 'formal' and detached? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A lot of our input in the project has been structural. We have architect-ed: the workshop activities, the making of the film, the editing, the installation of the work in the gallery. Whilst the Patua have been the storytellers, the image-makers. They have projected their ideas, processed and interpreted, converted them into language, stories and images. We have been the framers, the punctuation, the material and the manner of presentation.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">who is the viewer?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">what do we want from them?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What are we trying to communicate to them?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">which films will we show? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">how will they relate to each other- in space?</span></li>
</ul><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To be continued..</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1302304137421058127.post-23734618221809423152010-11-08T02:22:00.001+00:002010-11-08T15:40:36.375+00:00understanding language<div class="separator" style="text-align: justify; clear: both; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">it's easier translating the second time around... now that i know how the patuas talk.. it made no sense the first time around... i though they were loosing their minds !!!"</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: justify; clear: both; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: justify; clear: both; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: justify; clear: both; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">After we came to London we have noticed that the script we were working with in India didn't really match with what was happening in the film. When shooting particular scenes we often felt quite disorientated, as things didn't make sense. We would read the script, trying to match text with what was happening in front of the camera and couldn't understand what was it all about. After reading the second translation (a month ago) from the dialect, which Patua spoke, to English we have realized that our film was supposed to be some sort of comedy. When in India, we were convinced that it was rather serious story dwelling on religion and problems, which Patua dealt in their everyday life.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: justify; clear: both; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">When Sumona sent us second translation we realized that all our attempts to make the film look "better", by the way we filmed, were going in the wrong direction. We misinterpreted Patua's intentions, and our actions in some way must have been misleading for them.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: justify; clear: both; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: justify; clear: both; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left; clear: both; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Here is the first translation:</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"></span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWf7cDsd-I/AAAAAAAAAWc/9-lmyXh06dc/s1600/Last+Roll+-+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; "><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWf7cDsd-I/AAAAAAAAAWc/9-lmyXh06dc/s640/Last+Roll+-+1.jpg" width="452" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWgA7efskI/AAAAAAAAAWk/httXgyyxDIA/s1600/Last+Roll+-+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; "><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWgA7efskI/AAAAAAAAAWk/httXgyyxDIA/s640/Last+Roll+-+2.jpg" width="452" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWgEF7mD5I/AAAAAAAAAWs/36UKtwaOddQ/s1600/Last+Roll+-+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; "><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWgEF7mD5I/AAAAAAAAAWs/36UKtwaOddQ/s640/Last+Roll+-+3.jpg" width="452" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWgGggHdcI/AAAAAAAAAW0/_1UIEQ0q37Q/s1600/Last+Roll+-+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; "><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWgGggHdcI/AAAAAAAAAW0/_1UIEQ0q37Q/s640/Last+Roll+-+4.jpg" width="452" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWgIBtG9gI/AAAAAAAAAW8/wUFeZxca3vk/s1600/Last+Roll+-+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; "><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWgIBtG9gI/AAAAAAAAAW8/wUFeZxca3vk/s640/Last+Roll+-+5.jpg" width="452" /></a></div>MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1302304137421058127.post-48947322481010440532010-10-25T01:13:00.001+01:002010-10-25T01:14:48.128+01:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Patachitra artists are coming to UK in November! </span>MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1302304137421058127.post-40386408668297795212010-10-25T00:53:00.007+01:002010-11-08T02:37:56.455+00:00from Banglanatak.com - retrospectively<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2nQa59Vtn2Te38MKGXJPQRF5Uipm1hi3siskpAwT6c_QTOXsxrQZGklRn8jjk-vfkTG7lHpwaG6R5900Nx1VhV6Wgbbi_KguIA-y7uZXghEZhBNLov9AyIpqL8laXk7DYhs2XobL1Ymg/s1600/viewer.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 351px; height: 261px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2nQa59Vtn2Te38MKGXJPQRF5Uipm1hi3siskpAwT6c_QTOXsxrQZGklRn8jjk-vfkTG7lHpwaG6R5900Nx1VhV6Wgbbi_KguIA-y7uZXghEZhBNLov9AyIpqL8laXk7DYhs2XobL1Ymg/s400/viewer.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5531768832434498370" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b>Erasing Boundaries</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> by Manas Acharya</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In the past few years banglanatak dot com has undertaken an initiative </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:small;">to broaden the horizon of curatorial art practice as an innovative social </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:small;">development method. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:small;">We have tried to transfigure it into a new platform for exchange, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:small;">assimilation and improvisation between the traditional folk artists of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:small;">Bengal and the contemporary mainstream urban artists across the globe. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:small;">The idea behind curating these activities, spanning from interdisciplinary</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">collaborative art project to public space art, is to explore the possibilities </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:small;">of collaboration by erasing the demarcations that segregates the various </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:small;">art practices across the world. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:small;">In 2009 we started a uniquely innovative interdisciplinary art initiative </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:small;">titled, ‘POTential - An effort to explore’. ‘Potential II’ a similar workshop </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:small;">held in 2010 at the Natyashala II, EZCC Campus at Salt Lake, Kolkata </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:small;">was an extension of the former. An open studio was also organized at</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Akar Prakar Art Gallery, Kolkata.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The 12-day workshop for Potential II commenced with an orientation </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">programme spanning over 2 days during which, the guest-artists from </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:small;">London visited Naya village in West Midnapore. During this visit they shared their art as well as learnt about the history and nuances of Patachitra </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Art. A film documenting the workshop from the previous year was screened every evening for the Patachitra community. The guest artists also </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:small;">initiated small participatory events where the theme for this year’s workshop, ‘Transformation’, was introduced. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:small;">This was followed by an open studio in Kolkata where 20 artworks were developed collaboratively. This included Patachitra paintings, films, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:small;">animation, a documentation of the community participatory game ’Chinese Whisper’, photographs, drawings, video installations and even scrawls </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:small;">and scribbles based on the theme ‘Transformation’. As a coordinator it was a unique experience for me to have witnessed this workshop.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The Earth Day 2010 Workshop was yet another interesting experience. The workshop was based on the theme ‘ART FOR EARTH’ and was held in a </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:small;">public space. ‘Transit’ the new-media artists from London, the experimental artists from ‘Khoj Kolkata’ and a number of young talented artists, along </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial;font-size:small;">with Patuas and Baul-Fakirs evolved an installation performance voicing their concerns for environment on the 40th anniversary of the Earth Day.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></div>MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1302304137421058127.post-16165810875758536632010-10-16T14:14:00.004+01:002010-10-16T14:15:12.379+01:00Screening today at The Pigeon Wing<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 200; line-height: 16px; "><div id="_mcePaste" style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.thepigeonwing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/notsominiplex24.jpg" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; "><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1004" title="notsominiplex2" src="http://www.thepigeonwing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/notsominiplex24-300x166.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="166" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; text-decoration: none; " /></a></div><p style="text-align: center; ">Following the success of The Pigeon Wing’s MINIPLEX at Depford X,</p><p style="text-align: center; ">we invite you to one final screening of our full programme of films,</p><p style="text-align: center; ">in the ‘not so mini’ comfort of The Pigeon Wing.</p><p style="text-align: center; "></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>3-8pm Saturday 16th October at The Pigeon Wing.</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "></p><p style="text-align: center; ">For more information email info@thepigeonwing.co.uk</p><p style="text-align: center; ">Films:</p><p style="text-align: center; ">The Fictional Pixel – Steve Claydon<br />Premise – Transition Collective<br />A Necessary Music – Beartice Gibson<br />Point, Line, Plane – Simon Payne<br />A Week in the News: 7 Places We Think We Know, 7 News Stories We Think We Understand – Grace Ndiritu<br />Heliocentric – Semiconductor<br />The Curious – Sally O’really<br />An Island – Luca Bolognesi<br />The Voyage of Nonsuch – Ruth Beale & Karen Mirza<br />Men With No Names – Justin Berry<br />Ballet De Suez – Ian Parkin<br />Pay Attention – Giles Ripley<br />Mr Fox – Max Swinton<br />Mr Pike – Max Swinton<br />The Turning – Matthew MacKisack<br />The Incoherence of the Incoherence – Matthew MacKisack</p><p style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.thepigeonwing.co.uk/a-not-so-mini-miniplex-screening-times" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">click here for full screening times</a></p><p style="text-align: center; "></p><p style="text-align: center; ">Kindly Supported By:</p><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.thepigeonwing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DX_luxlogo_Sml_white.jpg" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; "><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-993" title="DX_luxlogo_Sml_white" src="http://www.thepigeonwing.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DX_luxlogo_Sml_white-213x300.jpg" alt="" width="149" height="210" style="border-top-style: none; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 175px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja7Uv08sjuoMov9PQFDoafDYXb7reAA4gbai-5EY2iKUVThvXlF3YcJOEpBOBlFtihEJM5KzoQrC-HOMOBIOmlUbEX9HTbm8ANn5aw2orQJimyS2GLdX85856GFNYzOJA3Bk0x6nENSO4/s320/miniplex_Large_x.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519301794321477378" /></a><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Lucida Grande"><i>Premise – There Is No End To The Story About The Artists From America And India (x3) </i>will be screened at DepfordX from 25th of September to the 3rd of October</p>MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1302304137421058127.post-5675238300750808682010-07-28T14:10:00.003+01:002010-07-28T14:16:05.238+01:00On formation<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">When we started our co-operation in Kolkata we brainstormed about the possibilities and meaning of the word ‘Transformation’. During one of these sessions someone (I’m afraid I can’t remember who) suggested a story. The story tells us about a man who looses his cat to a snake. In short, a snake had wanted to attack the man was it not for his cat, who succeeded in preventing this. However, the snake had bitten the cat during the struggle and so the cat ultimately sacrificed his life to save his master.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I still remember being at a complete loss as to how this story was related to the other proposals/ideas people had put forward. Most of the other suggestions did in some way relate to ‘Transformation’ as we had suggested.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Looking back, I probably dismissed the idea too easily, not in the least because during the preparations I had developed my own ideas and expectations. One of the main concerns for Transit\ion was (and probably still is) how we could develop creative exchanges without taking control of the entire project. Perhaps, stories about sacrifice/power relations did not really fit this aim?</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Re-reading my notebook also reinforces my own feeling that we were looking for ways to cooperate as a strategy for creativity. We were all careful to make sure everyone participated, clearly visible in the fact that everyone appears in the film we made in Kolkata. But, it was not only Transit\ion’s desire. The original script written by the Patua is really a combination of many of the suggestions put forward during our initial brainstorming sessions. Was this an intentional amalgamation so everyone was being represented? We were equally non-confrontational when we were invited to respond to the script. Our suggested interventions where all very formal and we hardly engaged in the writing or content of the script.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; ">So, to come back to the story about the cat, it would have been an interesting story to engage with. It would have highlighted, in a more direct way what we were aiming to achieve (ie… to get away from). Sadly, I didn’t see it at the time.</span></p>Niels Staatshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07631936494463663446noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1302304137421058127.post-56748527418995455142010-07-11T22:02:00.001+01:002010-07-11T22:16:53.168+01:00Translated from - 'A Reporters Self Portrait' by R. Kapuściński<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">“Stereotype – comes not from the knowledge, but from the emotions – therefore is dangerous”</span></p> <!--EndFragment-->MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1302304137421058127.post-2235437263781695492010-07-11T22:00:00.000+01:002010-07-11T22:17:37.038+01:00Update<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Helvetica, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> <!--StartFragment--> </span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Helvetica, serif;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">We are at the stage of de-constructing of what we did in India. Looking through the video material filmed during the project, we are revisiting those three weeks; we are re-thinking everything that happened. Leaving Kolkata, we knew it was only a stage of the project that we left behind, that another one will start once we look at things from our homes in London. When we were in India we were impressionable, perceiving things in a sensual way, everything was new and there was so much happening around. The way we thought and behaved was influenced by what was happening around us, was altered by it. However, it was also important to allow ourselves to take in as much as we could, to absorb the atmosphere of the place, to meet as many people as we could, as all those conversations, trips to local markets or wonderings around were crucial in understanding the context of the palce we were working in and understanding where Patua come from. Operating in this unfamiliar environment also made us aware of certain mechanics in our thinking and behavioural processes. We were, therefore, better equipped to see things without certain set of filters (cultural, stereotypical)</p> <!--EndFragment--> </span><p></p> <!--EndFragment-->MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1302304137421058127.post-69892123124375150962010-07-11T21:50:00.001+01:002010-07-11T21:50:38.733+01:00New Ways of Communicating<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">We had to adjust to different ways of communicating during our collaboration with Patua artists. They spoke Bengali, while we spoke English, Polish, Lithuanian and Dutch. None of the languages known to us became useful in a direct contact with our colleagues. I started writing single Bengali words and short sentences down, to engage in the simplest conversations. They would learn the same words and sentences in English. However, what we really tried to understand was the language of symbols and signs - the information that came not only from what was said but also from the way it was said, the way people behaved, the way they lived…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Often in the evenings, we would sit down and de-construct what happened during the day, analyzing our mutual behaviours, trying to read from them. Then we built from it, re-creating the reality, learning.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">In the film, this became mostly visible in three scenes, the dinner scene, the first dancing scene and the scene when I speak in Bengali.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">To have a dinner with European food came up as an idea during one of our brain storming crits, where Transit\ion introduced the meaning of the term </span><span style="font-size:small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span">transformation</span></i></span><span style="font-style: normal; font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">, which was translated to Bengali as </span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span">rupantor. </span></i></span><span style="font-style: normal; font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">To make sure that we all had a similar understanding of the word we had a brain storming session, where examples of transformation and possible ways of working with the term would be given. Suman suggested they experience some of our roles and environments, as Transit\ion had visited their villages and lived with them in theirs.</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">We responded to this with a dinner invitation, where the food cooked and served in a European manner was served and we acted as waiting staff, in the villages the Patua had always insisted on serving us.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The dancing scene was directed by the Patachitra. Tilly and I were invited/requested to participate. By following certain movements and realizing the symbolic significance embedded in them, with some help from Sumona (our translator and interpreter) we became aware of the meaning of the entire song. This awareness opened another door for us, becoming one more key to understanding Patuas and where their creative process begins.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The scene of me talking with Bablu was shot on one of the first days of making the film. I was asked to act in Bengali, but had no knowledge of what the text was about. I read from the tone of his voice and his body language and attempted to respond with the same type of emotion. I also wanted to stand up to him as a woman, I wanted my voice to be loud and my laugh to be powerful. What I was saying was secondary to the way I was saying it, letting my own experiences and believes influence the act.</span></div>MFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00979135134848702024noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1302304137421058127.post-60864356093673267132010-07-11T21:41:00.000+01:002010-07-11T21:41:13.523+01:00Film Stills<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDXDpQ6MD-I/AAAAAAAAAZk/t4aa5MnMGPY/s1600/Screen+shot+2010-07-05+at+23.03.10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDXDpQ6MD-I/AAAAAAAAAZk/t4aa5MnMGPY/s320/Screen+shot+2010-07-05+at+23.03.10.jpg" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDXDri_C9VI/AAAAAAAAAZs/A_YlQfVOX4Q/s1600/Screen+shot+2010-07-05+at+23.02.52.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDXDri_C9VI/AAAAAAAAAZs/A_YlQfVOX4Q/s320/Screen+shot+2010-07-05+at+23.02.52.jpg" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDXDwJFbegI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/OARFHSRX_ms/s1600/Screen+shot+2010-07-05+at+23.04.36.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDXDwJFbegI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/OARFHSRX_ms/s320/Screen+shot+2010-07-05+at+23.04.36.jpg" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDXD2j6B6tI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/7bUnyT02M3Q/s1600/Screen+shot+2010-07-05+at+23.06.31.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDXD2j6B6tI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/7bUnyT02M3Q/s320/Screen+shot+2010-07-05+at+23.06.31.jpg" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDXD6hcOvMI/AAAAAAAAAaE/GB9hyg3YJhY/s1600/Screen+shot+2010-07-05+at+23.06.18.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDXD6hcOvMI/AAAAAAAAAaE/GB9hyg3YJhY/s320/Screen+shot+2010-07-05+at+23.06.18.jpg" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDXD9FLZ9II/AAAAAAAAAaM/g1ebotxmd3o/s1600/Screen+shot+2010-07-05+at+23.07.59.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDXD9FLZ9II/AAAAAAAAAaM/g1ebotxmd3o/s320/Screen+shot+2010-07-05+at+23.07.59.jpg" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDXEBpH09dI/AAAAAAAAAaU/G0mk2LVTmnc/s1600/Screen+shot+2010-07-05+at+23.07.14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDXEBpH09dI/AAAAAAAAAaU/G0mk2LVTmnc/s320/Screen+shot+2010-07-05+at+23.07.14.jpg" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDXEGygwLwI/AAAAAAAAAac/Z64NsYtNTU0/s1600/Screen+shot+2010-07-05+at+23.10.34.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDXEGygwLwI/AAAAAAAAAac/Z64NsYtNTU0/s320/Screen+shot+2010-07-05+at+23.10.34.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The screenplay is set in the villages in the district of Midnapur where the Patua live, but shot in the suburbs of East Kolkata, in locations, which resemble village life. In twelve short scenes multiple stories are woven together: </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">the Patua preparing for the film shooting, scenes from their everyday life, and passionate scenes highlighting ecological issues like deforestation and river contamination that affect the Patua on a daily basis</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">.</span></span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">The script was initially conceived as a play, and performed at EZCC. All the action happens within the square on the floor.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1302304137421058127.post-15829330577036779192010-07-11T21:22:00.000+01:002010-07-11T21:44:44.722+01:00Ways to Intervene<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Before we started shooting the film we wanted to define the role Transit\ion would have in the process. The Patua had written the script and were the main stars of the story (with cameos from us). To make a film collaboratively, acting as more than just a film crew, we wanted to have some creative input. The image shows the noticeboard we used to keep track of ideas. Below is a list of interventions we considered, some of which were implemented, others may be still used in future edits of the film. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1302304137421058127.post-78516085453608360042010-07-08T11:35:00.001+01:002010-07-11T20:37:05.863+01:00Film Location Recconnaisance<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWqIuLQQ8I/AAAAAAAAAXE/lFTZbV-dkJQ/s1600/reccy+shots+-+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWqIuLQQ8I/AAAAAAAAAXE/lFTZbV-dkJQ/s320/reccy+shots+-+1.jpg" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWqMAb0ExI/AAAAAAAAAXM/tN44cbdPk3A/s1600/reccy+shots+-+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWqMAb0ExI/AAAAAAAAAXM/tN44cbdPk3A/s320/reccy+shots+-+2.jpg" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWqP_3WYKI/AAAAAAAAAXU/CE1mIaqkYl4/s1600/reccy+shots+-+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWqP_3WYKI/AAAAAAAAAXU/CE1mIaqkYl4/s320/reccy+shots+-+3.jpg" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWqSEmg2xI/AAAAAAAAAXc/Sa4a1Xg2r54/s1600/reccy+shots+-+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWqSEmg2xI/AAAAAAAAAXc/Sa4a1Xg2r54/s320/reccy+shots+-+4.jpg" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWqUJZscEI/AAAAAAAAAXk/-eYpD8pVlMM/s1600/reccy+shots+-+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWqUJZscEI/AAAAAAAAAXk/-eYpD8pVlMM/s320/reccy+shots+-+5.jpg" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWqXP2Q9kI/AAAAAAAAAXs/2BWG1tHJHnw/s1600/reccy+shots+-+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWqXP2Q9kI/AAAAAAAAAXs/2BWG1tHJHnw/s320/reccy+shots+-+6.jpg" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWqZwEGBGI/AAAAAAAAAX0/f-YTwCxQaSY/s1600/reccy+shots+-+7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWqZwEGBGI/AAAAAAAAAX0/f-YTwCxQaSY/s320/reccy+shots+-+7.jpg" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWqcSkcoJI/AAAAAAAAAX8/t5C6RozWe9I/s1600/reccy+shots+-+8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWqcSkcoJI/AAAAAAAAAX8/t5C6RozWe9I/s320/reccy+shots+-+8.jpg" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWqeIpwF5I/AAAAAAAAAYE/YNK6DVnivfo/s1600/reccy+shots+-+9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWqeIpwF5I/AAAAAAAAAYE/YNK6DVnivfo/s320/reccy+shots+-+9.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Photographs taken by Patachitra artists.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">On one of the days we suggested to go outside of EZCC (Eastern Zonal Cultural Center) where we had our project space, and think of possible locations where we could shoot the film. A group of Patuas took cabs and asked Niels and Arunas to come with them. These photographs were among those taken during that trip and they show locations that later became sets for most of the scenes. It was surprising for us to see so little of the cityscape on them. Was it because Patua were searching for something familiar to them? Kolkata was a place of visits to them, but it was very different to where they lived. In conversations with them they would often highlight the symbolic meaning of certain things they photographed. Like a tree or water. They would also be very precise about the particular elements within shot, for example, a field with a very specific set of trees, a path that resembled one they knew from home and that could not be found in Kolkata. After some time I realized that we were too. I also wanted the camera to be placed in a certain way. For instance while filming the scene in the village Dukhushyam was concerned about his and the other artists position within the frame. For him frame was a theatre stage. I was more interested in the background, thinking of how to capture fragments of the everyday life happening behind the actors. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">by Magda</span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1302304137421058127.post-66377421530554681962010-07-08T10:39:00.000+01:002010-07-08T10:39:35.766+01:00Transformation/ Rupantor<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWcaZcIrmI/AAAAAAAAAWU/1y9Q6f63Y3U/s1600/Library+-+340.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWcaZcIrmI/AAAAAAAAAWU/1y9Q6f63Y3U/s640/Library+-+340.jpg" width="640" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWcWqj-1YI/AAAAAAAAAWM/lJOdwCf7m4g/s1600/Library+-+339.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWcWqj-1YI/AAAAAAAAAWM/lJOdwCf7m4g/s640/Library+-+339.jpg" width="640" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWcTck-VII/AAAAAAAAAWE/pISr0tzlpjY/s1600/Library+-+338.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oaNFLdJiq7U/TDWcTck-VII/AAAAAAAAAWE/pISr0tzlpjY/s640/Library+-+338.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span id="goog_1582346614"></span><span id="goog_1582346615"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1302304137421058127.post-47537303227409265222010-06-19T13:06:00.000+01:002010-06-19T13:33:04.533+01:00Chinese Whispers/ Telephone in Kolkata<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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