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Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum in collaboration with Centre for Moving Image, Anant National University

presents a screening and discussion of three short films by Amit Dutta

• THE GAME OF SHIFTING MIRRORS

• TOUCH AIR

• CHITRASHALA: HOUSE OF PAINTINGS

Date: 13 April, 2024 (Saturday)

Time: 4 pm to 5:30 pm

Venue: Lecture Hall, L D Museum

Ages: 18 and above

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About the Filmmaker:

Amit Dutta is an experimental filmmaker from India. He graduated in film direction from the Film Television Institute of India (FTII) in 2004. Dutta has made more than 40 films and published six books. His works range from literary adaptations, fiction, documentation, video-diary and animation, often blurring genres in an attempt to engage directly with the subjects. He has won various awards, including the FIPRESCI Prize for his short film To Be Continued (2007) in Oberhausen and the Jury's Special Mention Prize for his first feature film, The Man's Woman and Other Stories (2009), in Venice.

About the Films:

• THE GAME OF SHIFTING MIRRORS

Museums are a complex legacy of a historic wanderlust where many 'times' co-exist in the same 'space'. By just walking a few paces, one moves across centuries. The artwork exhibited is removed from its original context. This film juxtaposes the spaces of a 1920's Indo-Saracenic museum building (a typical edifice from the British Raj) with another space where the artworks are still placed where they were meant to be—the sandstone sculptures eroding with time in an 8th-century monument. It contemplates the colonial past of India and its complicated relationship with art and its history, with layers of artistic experiences from the classical, modern, contemporary, and tribal.

• TOUCH AIR

An homage to the influential practice and philosophy of artist Nasreen Mohamedi. The film incorporates Mohamedi's personal notes and her unique singular vision, drawing upon the aesthetics of the bare line and its metaphysical journey eliminating physical borders/ barriers.

• CHITRASHALA: HOUSE OF PAINTINGS

When a gallery of paintings becomes emptied of its spectators, the curtains raise within the paintings. The Amar Mahal Palace Museum in Jammu, India, is the stage for this film. Forty seven paintings made in the Pahari school of master-painter Nainsukh's immediate descendants adorn the palace walls. Based on a 12th-century Sanskrit epic poem depicting the love of Nala and Damayanti, this set of paintings were made five centuries later. But their mysteries are still many. The animation in the film is used to articulate the painter's intention.

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