Illustrated Lecture and Film Screening // EAEFF Satellite Programmes: Mytho-Poetic Cinema by Mehdi Jahan

Mehdi Jahan on his cinematic language and its engagement with collective memory and personal archives // followed by 𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗠 𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚: 𝙅𝙮𝙤𝙩𝙞 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙅𝙤𝙮𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞 (2017) // presented by Emami Art as a part of 𝗘𝗔𝗘𝗙𝗙 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲𝘀.

Date: 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟭𝟳 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰
Time: 𝟰 -𝟳 𝗣𝗠
Venue: 𝟰𝘁𝗵 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗿, 𝗞𝗖𝗖

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𝙅𝙮𝙤𝙩𝙞 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙅𝙤𝙮𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞 (𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟳)
A fatally shot rebel stumbles upon an old woman in a mysterious forest. The old woman brings him back to life by telling a tale she has told several such rebels. Her husband, who ran a canteen during the Sino-Indian War, used to narrate this story to soldiers who visited his canteen. Her husband never returned from the war but various versions of his story reached her through soldiers who survived the war. Personal memories and collective histories blend into one entity as the old lady's story unfolds, transforming the landscape into a theater of dreams and memories where several scenes from the history of Assam plays out again.

𝗠𝗲𝗵𝗱𝗶 𝗝𝗮𝗵𝗮𝗻 is a filmmaker, video artist, and film pedagogue from Guwahati, India. He works as an Assistant Professor of Direction at the Department of Direction and Screenplay at Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata. His films have been screened and exhibited at several festivals and exhibitions nationally and internationally, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), The Millennium Workshop (New York), Fronteira International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival (Brazil), Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (as part of Moscow International Experimental Film Festival), FILMADRID, etc.