Katha Centre for Film Studies (KCFS), in collaboration with India Foundation for the Arts (IFA), has organised Cinema Satsang, a five-day film festival curated by young men and women trained during the workshops on film curation held by KCFS earlier this year.
Katha Centre for Film Studies (KCFS), in collaboration with India Foundation for the Arts (IFA), has organised Cinema Satsang, a five-day film festival curated by young men and women trained during the workshops on film curation held by KCFS earlier this year.
According to Prabodh Parikh, director, KCFS, the world needs curators now more than ever, especially with a growing demand for classics that requires one to dig into the history of cinema. Terming our ways of interacting with cinema as “quite enjoyably thoughtless”, Parikh says, “Given that cinema has such a major influence today on who we think we are, the Centre wants to turn this interaction into a thoughtful activity.”
Among the curators is Aritra Bhattacharya, a Mumbai-based student who has drawn up a list of films for the section titled Documentaries of Resistance, scheduled for Friday. “Most documentaries made in India portray people’s resistance movements in a binary fashion, where the state is the aggressor and the people are the victims. But there is a need for a more nuanced portrayal of the complexities inherent in such movements,” says Bhattacharya who feels documentary films can be more than a boring, didactic exercise both for those who make them and those who view them.
UK-born Malcolm Pope, who is currently pursuing an MBA in media and entertainment at Whistling Woods, will be curating a section on New Economics of Film on Thursday. Pope is especially interested in how micro-budget films can launch an original voice, such as acclaimed American filmmaker Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, Requiem For A Dream) who made his directorial debut with Pi, which will be screened at the festival.
According to Parikh, the final aim of the festival is to make young people commit to cinema as a way of life without feeling anxious and alone. “Fundamentally, it’s about being young and being mad about something; in this case, it happens to be cinema.”
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