IFA@Bhubaneswar | IFA Open House and Film Screenings at Indian Documentary Film Festival, Bhubaneswar | October 14-16, 2022

IFA OPEN HOUSE
with John Xaviers, Programme Officer, Arts Practice

Sunday, October 16, 2022 | 03:30 PM – 04:30 PM | Odissi Research Center, Zone II

and FILM SCREENINGS
at the Indian Documentary Film Festival, Bhubaneswar (IDFFB) organised by Film Society of Bhubaneswar

Saturday, October 15, 2022 | Main Auditorium, Odissi Research Center
Plot No. 1/A, Jayadev Vihar, Salia Sahi, Nandankanan Road,
Bhubaneswar, Odisha - 751 013

Wittgenstein plays Chess with Marcel Duchamp or How not to do Philosophy
by Amit Dutta
Duration: 17 minutes | Language: English
01:45 PM onwards

This animated film takes its name from Steven Gerrard’s essay and merges concepts from philosophy, linguistics, the visual arts, mathematics, geometry, psychology, and of course, chess. The narration by animator Ayswarya Sankaranarayanan Dutta imbues a steadying flow of Gerrard’s text to the 17-minute kaleidoscope of photographs, animated clips, highlighted quotes, and intriguing juxtapositions, from modern art history, film theory, and continental philosophy.

Amit Dutta is an Indian experimental filmmaker and writer. His works deal with subjects of Indian aesthetic theory, art history and continental philosophy through cinema.
Amit received a grant from India Foundation for the Arts in 2018-19 under the Arts Practice programme.

Bela
by Prantik Basu
Duration: 59 minutes | Language: Rahr Bangla, with English subtitles
07:45 PM onwards

In Bela (an indigenous village in eastern India), the men practice a traditional masked folk dance known as the Chhau, while the women frequent the nearby forest to gather dry leaves and firewood. In the local language, Bela means time. Shot over two years and edited as a story of two consecutive days, the film is an intimate observation of the rhythms and rituals of art and labour, the feminine and the masculine, and the ambiguous thresholds between them. 

Prantik Basu is a Kolkata-based experimental filmmaker. Bela had its world premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam IFFR 2021.
Prantik received a grant from India Foundation for the Arts in 2018-19 under the Arts Practice programme.

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