Katha Centre for Film Studies
22nd – 26th August, 2011
Venue: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahlaya, Mumbai
Katha Centre for Film Studies and the India Foundation for the Arts in association with the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahlaya (formerly Prince of Wales Museum) is conducting its second workshop for young cinephiles, film scholars, artists and students on Film Curatorial Practices between 22nd and 26th August, 2011.
The workshop aims to equip young film enthusiasts with specialized knowledge about and around the idea of Film Curation. It will also give them an opportunity to interact with established practioners and academicians, and engage with them in a cinematic discourse centred on film curation.
The workshop
Film Curating is concerned with a more evolved understanding of the moving image. Film and video are artistic mediums – much like what canvas and brush are to a painter. Today, both filmmakers and visual artists work increasingly with the medium of the moving image to make their art works. In addition, museums and galleries are increasingly exhibiting moving image work – experimental film and installation; and video art and video installation. It is this artistic and aesthetic understanding of the moving image that the Katha Centre for Film Studies is looking to develop through its workshop on Film Curatorial Practice.
The workshop will create a platform to represent, think and debate the following:
- Curatorial research methods
- Curatorial writing
- Practical aspects of curation
- Context specific curation
- Different ways of engaging with audiences
- Critical understandings on the history of film criticism and curation
For the second workshop, Katha Centre for Film Studies has engaged distinguished practioners, filmmakers, curators and academicians – Madhusree Dutta, Gargi Sen, Bina Paul, Amar Kanwar, Shai Heredia and Moinak Biswas.
At the end of the five-day workshop, participants will submit their own curatorial proposals, based on which they will be selected for a second one-day workshop, to be held two months after the first. Between the two workshops, a mentor will guide the participants and help them refine their curatorial proposals.
After the second workshop, the selected participants will get an opportunity to curate a day-long film festival.
This workshop series is a part of a four-year Curatorship Programme conceptualized by India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) in collaboration with select institutions from across the country.
More on IFA’s Curatorship Programme
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