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Newsletter- May 2003
CONTENTS : MAY 2003
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PRESENTATION @ SARAI
May 5 ELECTROSIA: electronic music & poetry by Mexican poets & sound artists
FILMS @ SARAI
May 16 Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922), Directed by Fritz Lang, Germany
May 17 Ivan the Terrible Part I (1943), Directed by Sergei Eisenstein, USSR
May 18 Night of the Hunter (1955), Directed by Charles Laughton, USA
May 19 Sansho the Bailiff (1954), Directed by Kenzi Mizoguchi, Japan
May 20 Imitation of Life (1959), Directed by Douglas Sirk, USA
May 22 Vivre Sa Vie (1962), Directed by Jean Luc Godard, France
May 23 Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1989), Directed by
Harun Farocki, Germany
May 24 Jagte Raho (1957), Directed by Shombhu and Amit Maitra, India
May 25 Subarnarekha (1962), Directed by Ritwik Ghatak, India
May 26 Amores Perros (2000), Directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Innurita, Mexico
WORKSHOP REPORT: First National Indic-Font Workshop
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Dear Friends,
This May we take a break from the regular Friday film screenings to focus on
the “Introduction to Film Studies Lecture Series" in the second half of the
month. The ten days (May 16-26, with a break on May 25) will be filled with
illustrated lectures, film screenings and discussions. Registration for the
series close on May 5. Evening film screenings, scheduled an hour later than
our regular screening time, at 5:30 pm, will be public. But the month starts
with an exciting evening of electronic music and poetry. Read on...
PRESENTATION @ SARAI
Monday May 5, 2003, 5 pm
ELECTROSIA: electronic music & poetry by Mexican poets & sound artists
Presented by Carla Faesler, Mexican poet
Electrosia (electronic music & poetry) is an ongoing project undertaken by
Mexican poets, sound artists and DJ's, as a way to experiment with new means
through which poetry can be delivered. The project started in 2002, and
gathers the work of Mexican poets from the 60's and 70's generations, as well
as those of the main underground collectives of the contemporary electronic
music scene in Mexico City.
Electrosia's aim is to produce a CD that will offer an alternative channel to
the traditional ways in wich poetry is divulged in Mexico. Carla Faesler has
authored books of poems including 'No tu sino la Piedra'. Her poetry has
appeared in literary magazines in Mexico and is part of 'Sin Puertas
Visibles', an anthology of contemporary poetry written by Mexican women. She
lives in Mexico City and works as a jounalist and editor advisor.
The presentation is in collaboration with the Embassy of Mexico in India.
FILMS @ SARAI
As part of the "Introduction to Film Studies" Lecture Series Sarai will screen
classics of World Cinema every evening between May 16 to May 26. All
screenings are at 5:30 pm, at the Seminar Room, Centre for the Study of
Developing Societies, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi -110054. The films are listed in
the order of screening.
This schedule is subject to last-minute changes. Screenings for May 21 will be
announced later.
Friday May 16, 2003, 5:30 pm
Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922), 130 minutes
Directed by Fritz Lang, Germany
In 'Dr Mabuse: The Gambler' Fritz Lang evokes the soiled and shoddy world of
crime-infested and inflation-racked post World War I Berlin.
Employing his supreme powers of disguise and hypnosis, Mabuse surrounds
himself with loyal servants and criminal henchmen who assassinate his rivals,
manipulate the stock market and seduce wealthy citizens out of their riches.
In a seedy underground cabaret, Mabuse, with the help of beautiful dancer
Cara Carozza, hypnotizes a bored, wealthy man named Hull. After losing large
sums of money to a disguised Mabuse, Hull is warned by police detective Wenk
that he has been the victim of a master criminal. Hull ignores the warning as
he has been seduced by Cara into thinking it was an honest game. Meanwhile,
Wenk solicits the assistance of rich Countess Told in his endless attempts to
capture Mabuse and his gang. When Cara is arrested, Mabuse retaliates by
kidnapping Countess Told and eluding Wenk and the police once again.
Using special effects, complex editing, fade outs, animation techniques and
superimpositions, Lang took the lessons he learned in the supernatural films
of German expressionism and applied them to this epic story of the underside
of Germany.
Saturday May 17, 2003, 5:30 pm
Ivan the Terrible Part I (1943), 94 minutes
Directed by Sergei Eisenstein, USSR
Originally conceived as a historical epic in three parts, Sergei Eisenstein's
biography of Czar Ivan IV, the murderous 16th-century unifier of the Russian
people, was truncated by the director's death in 1948, as he was about to
begin part three.
Starring Nikolai Cherkassov as the eponymous ruler, Part I opens with the
16-year-old's opulent coronation in 1546. He breaks with the custom of
marriage to a foreign princess by marrying a Russian girl, Anastasia
Romanovna, thereby offending the nobility. In an effort to expand his
territory eastward, he leads an army of 100,000 to seize Kazan, succeeding
only after a long and bitter campaign. After contracting a seemingly fatal
illness, Ivan summons the Boyars, led by his aunt Euphrosinia, but they
refuse his demand to swear allegiance to his one-year-old son, greatly
angering the czar. When Ivan miraculously returns to health, he begins to
consolidate power in opposition to the Boyars.
Set against a 16th century backdrop, the spectucalrly ornate set design and
costumes, along with a performance style influenced by Russian classism,
grand opera and Kabuki theater, and huge close-ups combine with Prokofiev's
choral music to make this film one of the classics of Russian cinema.
Sunday May 18, 2003, 5:30 pm
Night of the Hunter (1955), 93 minutes
Directed by Charles Laughton, USA
The Night of the Hunter (1955) is a classic thriller-fantasy, and the only
film ever directed by the great British actor Charles Laughton. The
disturbing, complex story was based on a popular, best-selling novel set in
the Depression era.
The protagonists are children remorselessly pursued by an obsessive,
homicidal, and misogynous preacher who, having murdered their mother, seeks
to steal from and kill them too. One of them at least knows that the word
"hate", written on the fingers of the preacher's left hand, is more
appropriate than the word "love" tattoed on his right.
On Friday, May 30th we will be screening Memento by
Christopher Nolan. The synopsis is below. Do come.
This is not part of the Film Studies Lecture Series.
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Memento (2000)
Director: Christopher Nolan
Duration: 109 Minutes
on Friday, May 30, 2003, 4:30 pm
at the Seminar Room, Sarai-CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054.
Christopher Nolan's Memento is a unique and intriguing thriller that begins
with the ultimate act of revenge and backtracks through time to reveal the
shocking and provocative reasons behind it.
Leonard Shelby (Guy Pierce) remembers everything upto the night his wife was
brutally raped and murdered. But since that tragedy, he has suffered from
short-term memory loss and cannot recall any event, the places he has visited
or anyone he has met just minutes before. Determined to find out why his wife
was killed, the only way he can store evidence is on scraps of paper, by
taking Polaroid photos and tattooing vital clues on his body. Throughout his
investigation he appears to have the help of both the bartender
Natalie(Carrie-Ann Moss), who may have her own secret agenda and police
officer Teddy (Joe Pantoliano) whose friendship is always suspect.
As Shelby's fractured memory tries to piece together a chilling jigsaw of
deceit and betrayal in reverse, breathtaking twists and surprising turns
rapidly occur in one of the most challenging, original and critically
acclaimed thriller in years.
Cheers,
Ranita
The Sarai Programme
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054
www.sarai.net
CONTENTS : MAY 2003
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PRESENTATION @ SARAI
May 5 ELECTROSIA: electronic music & poetry by Mexican poets & sound artists
FILMS @ SARAI
May 16 Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922), Directed by Fritz Lang, Germany
May 17 Ivan the Terrible Part I (1943), Directed by Sergei Eisenstein, USSR
May 18 Night of the Hunter (1955), Directed by Charles Laughton, USA
May 19 Sansho the Bailiff (1954), Directed by Kenzi Mizoguchi, Japan
May 20 Imitation of Life (1959), Directed by Douglas Sirk, USA
May 22 Vivre Sa Vie (1962), Directed by Jean Luc Godard, France
May 23 Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1989), Directed by
Harun Farocki, Germany
May 24 Jagte Raho (1957), Directed by Shombhu and Amit Maitra, India
May 25 Subarnarekha (1962), Directed by Ritwik Ghatak, India
May 26 Amores Perros (2000), Directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Innurita, Mexico
WORKSHOP REPORT: First National Indic-Font Workshop
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dear Friends,
This May we take a break from the regular Friday film screenings to focus on
the “Introduction to Film Studies Lecture Series" in the second half of the
month. The ten days (May 16-26, with a break on May 25) will be filled with
illustrated lectures, film screenings and discussions. Registration for the
series close on May 5. Evening film screenings, scheduled an hour later than
our regular screening time, at 5:30 pm, will be public. But the month starts
with an exciting evening of electronic music and poetry. Read on...
PRESENTATION @ SARAI
Monday May 5, 2003, 5 pm
ELECTROSIA: electronic music & poetry by Mexican poets & sound artists
Presented by Carla Faesler, Mexican poet
Electrosia (electronic music & poetry) is an ongoing project undertaken by
Mexican poets, sound artists and DJ's, as a way to experiment with new means
through which poetry can be delivered. The project started in 2002, and
gathers the work of Mexican poets from the 60's and 70's generations, as well
as those of the main underground collectives of the contemporary electronic
music scene in Mexico City.
Electrosia's aim is to produce a CD that will offer an alternative channel to
the traditional ways in wich poetry is divulged in Mexico. Carla Faesler has
authored books of poems including 'No tu sino la Piedra'. Her poetry has
appeared in literary magazines in Mexico and is part of 'Sin Puertas
Visibles', an anthology of contemporary poetry written by Mexican women. She
lives in Mexico City and works as a jounalist and editor advisor.
The presentation is in collaboration with the Embassy of Mexico in India.
FILMS @ SARAI
As part of the "Introduction to Film Studies" Lecture Series Sarai will screen
classics of World Cinema every evening between May 16 to May 26. All
screenings are at 5:30 pm, at the Seminar Room, Centre for the Study of
Developing Societies, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi -110054. The films are listed in
the order of screening.
This schedule is subject to last-minute changes. Screenings for May 21 will be
announced later.
Friday May 16, 2003, 5:30 pm
Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922), 130 minutes
Directed by Fritz Lang, Germany
In 'Dr Mabuse: The Gambler' Fritz Lang evokes the soiled and shoddy world of
crime-infested and inflation-racked post World War I Berlin.
Employing his supreme powers of disguise and hypnosis, Mabuse surrounds
himself with loyal servants and criminal henchmen who assassinate his rivals,
manipulate the stock market and seduce wealthy citizens out of their riches.
In a seedy underground cabaret, Mabuse, with the help of beautiful dancer
Cara Carozza, hypnotizes a bored, wealthy man named Hull. After losing large
sums of money to a disguised Mabuse, Hull is warned by police detective Wenk
that he has been the victim of a master criminal. Hull ignores the warning as
he has been seduced by Cara into thinking it was an honest game. Meanwhile,
Wenk solicits the assistance of rich Countess Told in his endless attempts to
capture Mabuse and his gang. When Cara is arrested, Mabuse retaliates by
kidnapping Countess Told and eluding Wenk and the police once again.
Using special effects, complex editing, fade outs, animation techniques and
superimpositions, Lang took the lessons he learned in the supernatural films
of German expressionism and applied them to this epic story of the underside
of Germany.
Saturday May 17, 2003, 5:30 pm
Ivan the Terrible Part I (1943), 94 minutes
Directed by Sergei Eisenstein, USSR
Originally conceived as a historical epic in three parts, Sergei Eisenstein's
biography of Czar Ivan IV, the murderous 16th-century unifier of the Russian
people, was truncated by the director's death in 1948, as he was about to
begin part three.
Starring Nikolai Cherkassov as the eponymous ruler, Part I opens with the
16-year-old's opulent coronation in 1546. He breaks with the custom of
marriage to a foreign princess by marrying a Russian girl, Anastasia
Romanovna, thereby offending the nobility. In an effort to expand his
territory eastward, he leads an army of 100,000 to seize Kazan, succeeding
only after a long and bitter campaign. After contracting a seemingly fatal
illness, Ivan summons the Boyars, led by his aunt Euphrosinia, but they
refuse his demand to swear allegiance to his one-year-old son, greatly
angering the czar. When Ivan miraculously returns to health, he begins to
consolidate power in opposition to the Boyars.
Set against a 16th century backdrop, the spectucalrly ornate set design and
costumes, along with a performance style influenced by Russian classism,
grand opera and Kabuki theater, and huge close-ups combine with Prokofiev's
choral music to make this film one of the classics of Russian cinema.
Sunday May 18, 2003, 5:30 pm
Night of the Hunter (1955), 93 minutes
Directed by Charles Laughton, USA
The Night of the Hunter (1955) is a classic thriller-fantasy, and the only
film ever directed by the great British actor Charles Laughton. The
disturbing, complex story was based on a popular, best-selling novel set in
the Depression era.
The protagonists are children remorselessly pursued by an obsessive,
homicidal, and misogynous preacher who, having murdered their mother, seeks
to steal from and kill them too. One of them at least knows that the word
"hate", written on the fingers of the preacher's left hand, is more
appropriate than the word "love" tattoed on his right.
On Friday, May 30th we will be screening Memento by
Christopher Nolan. The synopsis is below. Do come.
This is not part of the Film Studies Lecture Series.
----------------
Memento (2000)
Director: Christopher Nolan
Duration: 109 Minutes
on Friday, May 30, 2003, 4:30 pm
at the Seminar Room, Sarai-CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054.
Christopher Nolan's Memento is a unique and intriguing thriller that begins
with the ultimate act of revenge and backtracks through time to reveal the
shocking and provocative reasons behind it.
Leonard Shelby (Guy Pierce) remembers everything upto the night his wife was
brutally raped and murdered. But since that tragedy, he has suffered from
short-term memory loss and cannot recall any event, the places he has visited
or anyone he has met just minutes before. Determined to find out why his wife
was killed, the only way he can store evidence is on scraps of paper, by
taking Polaroid photos and tattooing vital clues on his body. Throughout his
investigation he appears to have the help of both the bartender
Natalie(Carrie-Ann Moss), who may have her own secret agenda and police
officer Teddy (Joe Pantoliano) whose friendship is always suspect.
As Shelby's fractured memory tries to piece together a chilling jigsaw of
deceit and betrayal in reverse, breathtaking twists and surprising turns
rapidly occur in one of the most challenging, original and critically
acclaimed thriller in years.
Cheers,
Ranita
The Sarai Programme
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054
www.sarai.net