Adda Film Club

Adda - a weekly film club managed by students screens a range of Indian and international documentaries and feature films. It also invites filmmakers to screen and discuss their work. Filmmakers such as Amar Kanwar, Ashish Avikuntak, Parvin Dabbas, Meghnath and Ajay TG, among others, have been featured as a part of the programme. Adda has also organised collaborative screenings with Vikalp and LABIA. The audience for these screenings ranges from around 30 to at times over 120.

3rd February, 2011
6.30 PM, ROOM No-5, Main Campus, TISS

, The Film Club, Centre for Media and Cultural Studies and Kashmir Solidarity Group Mumbai

The Animatrix is a collection of nine animated short films released in 2003, and set in the fictional universe of the Matrix series.

is a film that seeks to foreground the impossibility of fixing notions of sexuality through ideas of “identity” and “language”. As the film moves through various worlds the filmmaker has inhabited, it suggests a self in constant formation; one that constructs itself from parts and places that are in themselves, fragments of memory and experience. The film uses the metaphor of a “shell” as a place of repose and withdrawal from which it is possible to emerge. Uniquely, and with all the flair and multiplicity that accompanies a way of being.

is a charming, irreverent documentary film. The film is an assemblage of interviews, opinions, poetry and story that explores the stubborn legacy and allure of the eponymous facial feature of men and some intrepid women. Somehow both celebratory and satirical, Moustaches’ exploration of the male body politics is amusingly illuminating. It will take the bushiest of moustaches to hide the grins that this film elicits from its audience.

Based on a book written by Vijay Tendulkar, is a film by Govind Nihalini. In this acclaimed cop-drama, the protagonist, played by Om Puri, is a policeman struggling both with the evils around him and with his own frailties. The film also stars Amrish Puri, Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, and Sadashiv Amrapurkar.

The following is an excerpt of Dilip Chitre’s poem spoken by Om Puri in the film.

Chakravyuh mein ghusne se pehle,
kaun tha mein aur kaisa tha,
yeh mujhe yaad hi na rahega.

Chakravyuh mein ghusne ke baad,
mere aur chakravyuh ke beech,
sirf ek jaanleva nikat’ta thi,
iska mujhe pata hi na chalega.

Chakravyuh se nikalne ke baad,
main mukt ho jaoon bhale hi,
phir bhi chakravyuh ki rachna mein
farq hi na padega.

Marun ya maarun,
maara jaoon ya jaan se maardun.
iska faisla kabhi na ho paayega.

Soya hua aadmi jab
neend se uthkar chalna shuru karta hai,
tab sapnon ka sansar use,
dobara dikh hi na paayega.

Us roshni mein jo nirnay ki roshni hai
sab kuchh s’maan hoga kya?

Ek palde mein napunsakta,
ek palde mein paurush,
aur theek taraazu ke kaante par
ardh satya.

is an adaptation of Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novel detailing the trials faced by an outspoken Iranian girl who finds her unique attitude and outlook on life repeatedly challenged during the Islamic revolution.

as part of the nationwide campaign by filmmakers and human rights activists for the release of Ajay TG, arbitrarily arrested on 5th May 2008 under the Chattisgarh Special Public Security Act (CSPSA) . The arrests of Ajay and earlier of Dr. Binayak Sen in May 2007 are the tip of the iceberg of state-sponsored repression and stifling of dissent in Chattisgarh. The festival will also be an occasion to kick off a signature drive and other events in solidarity with the campaign, at TISS.

Vikalp is a nationwide collective of filmmakers against censorship and for freedom of expression. It has regular screenings in Mumbai. Every first Monday of the month, during the semester, will be a Vikalp@TISS event organised by Adda.

SCHEDULE

1800 hrs

Introduction to Adda, Vikalp@Tiss and the campaign

1815 hrs