film day

a day spent watching the films made by friends. the first being farida’s film ‘the seedkeepers’ shown in college in the encounter slot, where rural women in andhra pradesh were systematically shooting and editing footage of the work they are carrying out in ecological and sustainable farming. the film was as much about the movement and the way in which the new farming methods had affected change in the women’s lives as much as about the change that the insertion of new media has made regarding the way the women saw themselves.

farida and the q&a

mukul and me then had lunch at shanker and malatis place at 4 bungalows. it was good to meet him after a long time, and great to finally meet malati. we also sat and saw a bit of ‘frozen’ shankers carefully shot black and white film set in the himalayas- gorgeous looking; and malatis diploma film from temple university ‘the witch of agnesi’ about an actress obsessed about a part she has to play.

shanker/ malati

by the end of the day i was exhausted by the visual stimuli and needed to get some rest for my over agitated brain. we decided to give ‘eklavya’ at inorbit a miss; settled instead for some gelato; and found our way back home to have a bath and become couch potatoes for some good old reality tv in the form of american idol.