The Cinema City project by Majlis was represented by installation, films and panel discussions, at the Berlinale Forum expanded from 11th to the 20th February, 2010.
Below are some photographs from the event:
Phantom Lady by Pushpamala
Phantom Lady by Pushpamala: in focus
Book in the warehouse:
Book in the warehouse; from another angle
Sweatshop: an installation
Another look at the Sweatshop installation
The Booth at Delphi Theatre
Transparent booth at Pila House
Outside the Pila House
Calendar : Photograph 1
Calendar : Photograph 2
Bioscope
by
Kausik Mukhopadhyay
Bioscope was not only the primary exhibition convention of cinema it had also placed cinema in the cusp of folk practices and technology intensive performance of celluloid. As the traveling cinema box moved its merchandise from one neighbourhood to the other its only commitment was to moving images. Unlike the formal cinema bioscope could be replicated with simple lenses and assorted strips of celluloid by any self styled entrepreneur. The simple mechanism of bioscope still survives as a century old entertainment device.
In this project the bioscope is built with the contemporary urban material of acrylic sheets as a marker of its agility and street smartness. Inside the bioscope runs a dateline of the City of Bombay, its cinema and its engagement with modernity. In the eclectic style of bioscope exhibits the dateline appears in random combinations dislodging the linearity of time and thus upsetting the rendering of chronology of significance.
Bioscope: An installation by Kaushik Mukhopadhyay
Another look at the bioscope.
