The film .in for motion will have a Delhi premier on 27 February at Persistence Resistance 2010: A festival of contemporary political films, organised by the Magic Lantern Foundation and the India International Centre.
Date: 27 February 2010
Time: 6: 12 p.m.
Venue: India International Centre, 40 Maxmueller Marg, New Delhi 110003
.in for motion, 59 min, 2008, India
Director: Anirban Datta
.in for motion is a visual essay about the dramatic change that the world’s largest democracy is going through for the past two decades. Economic liberalization, and the IT revolution took place simultaneously in a country where the real industrial revolution hasn’t happened.
The cities expanded vertically and horizontally, the consumables changed in variety and choice. The citizen realized his power as consumer, democracy’s fundamental unit assumed a new identity. Underneath, the country witnessed an ever-increasing drain of inhabitants to the cities, fields of traditional crops gave way to industries, hillocks to IT towers. The population, once considered a burden, today coupled with education and professional exposure appears to become world’s largest contributor to the ever-growing IT industry.
One development erases memory of the previous. The fact that India was amongst the earliest in Asia to develop digital computers indigenously is a forgotten story today.
About the Director:
Anirban Datta, born in 1975, in Kolkata, started his career as a screenwriter before he joined Satyajit Ray Film & TV Institute (SRFTI), as a student of Direction & Screenplay Writing. His short documentary ‘Here is my nocturne’ (2004), as a part of the curriculum in SRFTI, was screened in major Indian film festivals. The film has also been screened as a part of an exhibition on Indian art and popular culture in the Helsinki City art Museum, Finland. ‘Tetris’ is his diploma film from SRFTI in 2006. ‘Tetris’ was premiered in Cannes’06 and travelled to a few important international festivals. ‘Chronicle of an Amnesiac’, made for the Japanese public broadcaster NHK in 2007, has been his first film after he has graduated from the film school. It touches upon few inner stories of an old metropolis, disappearing through the process of globalization. ‘.in for motion’ is his most recent film tracing India’s recent growth after the economic liberalization and the information revolution vis-a-vis its effect on the vast Indian populace. This film is a part of a series to commemorate the country’s 60 years of independence. A co-production with Steps India and YLE Finland, the film received the prestigious Jan Vrijman Fund from IDFA, Amsterdam.