Throwback Thursday #3 | Watch Pani Pata Poratam / Songs of our Soil | A Discussion with Aditi Maddali | June 25, 2020 | 06:00 PM

India Foundation for the Arts (IFA)
invites you to a discussion on the documentary film
Pani Pata Poratam / Songs of our Soil
(Duration: 52 mins | Language: Telugu with English subtitles)
by Aditi Maddali

The film is online here to be watched before you tune in to the live discussion with Aditi Maddali
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Throwback Thursdays with IFA

Thursday, June 25, 2020 | 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM | Zoom
 
As the lockdown and call for physical distancing continue, we, at IFA, are discovering new ways of engaging with technology and online platforms to share the work of our grantees. We are delighted to introduce a virtual series of conversations, film screenings, and performances titled Throwback Thursdays with IFA, where everyone is welcome.

In the next session of the series, we will be discussing the documentary film Pani Pata Poratam / Songs of our Soil with the filmmaker Aditi Maddali  on Thursday, June 25, 2020 between 06:00 PM to 07:00 PM. You can watch the film online here before you tune in to the live discussion with Aditi and Tanveer Ajsi, Senior Programme Officer, Arts Research programme, IFA.

Aditi Maddali received a grant from India Foundation for the Arts, under the Arts Research programme made possible with support from Titan Company Limited.

Through Uyyala songs, an agricultural tradition rooted in the political expression of women in Telangana, the documentary film Pani Pata Poratam / Songs of Our Soil traces the histories of their resistance and memories of disillusionment. By looking at women’s participation in major political movements, from the Telangana People’s Movement to the demands of justice from the contemporary Mallana Sagar Irrigation project, this film attempts to complicate the relationship between memory, history and cultural production.

Aditi Maddali is a Mumbai-based researcher and multimedia producer.
 
Click here and register to join us at the discussion on zoom.

The discussion will also be streamed live on our facebook page. No prior registration required to join the live streaming.

(All Throwback Thursdays with IFA are available on our Youtube Channel. Click on Where the Birds Never Sing for a discussion with photographer Soumya Sankar Bose and We Exist: Trans-ing the City for a conversation with Poornima Sukumar, Shanti and Chandri from the Aravani Art Project.)