November 8th, 16:00-18:00 CET/20:30-22:30 IST
(RV Ramani, 112 min, 2019)
Bhanumathi Rao, in her younger days, was a dancer and a theatre actor. Today in her mid-nineties, she lives with her two daughters – Maya Krishna Rao, a contemporary solo theatre practitioner based in Delhi and Tara Rao, who works as human rights campaigner in Bengaluru. Bhanumathi, an elegant and witty woman, whose hearing and memory doesn’t usually stand up, has led an enigmatic, passionate, yet a simple and pragmatic life. Filming Bhanumathi in Delhi and Bengaluru, with her daughters nudging her, the filmmaker takes the audience on a journey of life and performance, through the spasms of memory, complexities of relationships, love and a reflection of what could constitute a beautiful mind.
RV Ramani in conversation with Avijit Mukul Kishore (Filmmaker and Cinematographer) and Rahul Roy (Filmmaker and Cinematographer)
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R.V. Ramani, born in Mumbai, 1957, graduated in Physics from Mumbai University. He worked as a Photojournalist in Mumbai and later graduated from the Film and TV Institute of India, Pune, in 1985, with specialization in Motion Picture Photography. He moved to Chennai in 1990. Since then, over the years, he has established a unique style of his own, making independent impressionistic documentaries, which has found recognition both in India and abroad. He has travelled widely with his films and his films and Retrospectives have been presented in many International Film Festivals. |
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Avijit Mukul Kishore is a filmmaker and cinematographer based in Mumbai. He studied cinematography at Film and Television Institute of India, Pune and holds a bachelor's degree in History from Hindu College, University of Delhi. Kishore works in documentary films and inter-disciplinary moving-image practices. He is involved in cinema pedagogy as a lecturer, writer and curator of film programmes. He frequently collaborates with visual artists, architects and academics on video and film based works. Kishore's work has been widely screened at film festivals, art and academic fora. His films as director include The Garden of Forgotten Snow, Squeeze Lime in Your Eye, Nostalgia for the Future, Vertical City, To Let the World In and Snapshots from a Family Album. His films as cinematographer include Lovely Villa - Architecture as Autobiography, Kumar Talkies, John and Jane, Seven Islands and a Metro, Bidesia in Bambai, Morality TV and the Loving Jehad, Kali Salwaar (The Black Garment), I am Micro and An Old Dog’s Diary. |
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Rahul Roy graduated from the Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi in 1987 with a post graduate degree in film making. His films have travelled across the globe to various documentary film festivals and have won several prestigious awards. Rahul Roy has made a series of films that explore the themes of masculinity and gender relations against the larger backdrop of labour, class identities and urban spaces. Besides directing his own films Roy has produced several documentaries and two fiction films in the South Asian region. His graphic book on masculinities titled ‘A Little Book on Men’ was published by Yoda Press. And he has has co-edited (with Dr. Deepak Mehta) a volume titled* Violence and The Quest For Justice In South Asia* for a SAGE/Yoda imprint |