4 NOVEMBER 2017 AND 5 NOVEMBER 2017 | FILM SCREENING | KOLKATA CHRONICLES | CINEMA GHAR IN COLLABORATION WITH THEATRE FOR EXPERIMENTS IN NEW TECHNOLOGIES

In Kolkata Chronicles Cinema Ghar screened internationally recognized, independently produced, experimental feature films, which explore and reflect on Calcutta/Kolkata’s every day, and radically challenge both established film-forms and ideas about the city.

FILM : SPRING IN THE AIR | 4 NOVEMBER 2017

Spring in the Air is a film by Subrarta Acharya: This lyrical story of ‘Bonobashi’ a girl who lives in Kolkata, evokes the tale about the princess locked in a castle chamber. After moving into a poor quarter, the attractive young woman becomes a magnet for the attentions of every local man and boy. But since her arrival, she has yet to leave the apartment to walk out onto a street full of curious adolescents. She shares the apartment with an old man, probably her father, who controls her contact with the outside world.

FILM : CARNIVAL | 5 NOVEMBER 2017

Carnival is a film by Madhuja Mukherjee. The thin plotline of the film involves ‘Babu’ who has returned to Kolkata from somewhere during the Hindu festival, following the death of the ‘mother’. At home, he is struck by his father’s obtuse state, which is counter-balanced by his experiences of the city and excessive celebrations. In the end, Babu hopes to escape this milieu, death and ecstasy, but his story is swallowed by the cinematic form and mindless merriment.

SOURCE: CONFLICTORIUM ARCHIVES