CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, 5th FEBURARY,
2010
4:00
PM KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Room 208, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street
The Kumar Shahani Papers: The New Indian Cinema
and the Birth of Film Theory in India
Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Centre for the Study of Culture & Society,
Bangalore
5.30 PM RECEPTION
Room 108, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street
SCREENING
Auditorium, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street
7:00 PM Aranyer Din Ratri (Days and Nights in
the Forest)
Dir: Satyajit Ray (1970, 115 minutes, 35mm)
Introduced by Moinak Biswas, Jadavpur University, Calcutta
9:15 PM Jukti,
Takko Aar Gappo (Reason, Debate and a Story)
Dir: Ritwik Ghatak (1974, 120 minutes, 35mm)
Introduced by Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Centre for the Study of Culture & Society,
Bangalore
SATURDAY, 6th FEBURARY 2010
Kumar Shahani and the New Wave Avant-Garde
SCREENING
Auditorium, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street
10:00 AM Khayal Gatha
Dir: Kumar Shahani (1989, 103 minutes, 35mm)
Introduced by Aparna Frank, New York University
PANEL: 12:00 NOON-
1.30 PM
In Search of a Genealogy: Experimental, Avant-Garde
or Prayoga?
Ashish Chadha, Yale University
Illusions
of Narrative: Color and Camera Movement in Kumar Shahani's 'Maya Darpan'
Aparna Frank, New York University
Kumar
Shahani, Mani Kaul, and the Indian Avant-Garde
Richard Suchenski, Yale University
1.30 PM-2.30 PM LUNCH
Mani Kaul and the New Wave Avant-Garde
SCREENING
Auditorium, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street
2.30 PM Siddeshwari
Dir: Mani Kaul (1989, 92minutes, 35mm)
Introduced by Parag Amladi, New York University
PANEL: 4.15 PM
– 6.00 PM
Svabhava Flowing into Streams: In Continuum.
Interrogating the Avant-Garde and the Wave
Amrit Gangar, Independent film critic and scholar from Bombay
Mani
Kaul: Considerations on Practice
Parag Amladi, New York University
The
Articulacy of Form: Mani Kaul's Duvidha
Richard Allen, New York University
SCREENING
Auditorium, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street
8:00 PM Kathapurushan
(Man of the Story)
Dir: Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1996, 105 minutes, 35mm)
Introduced by Suranjan Ganguly, University of Colorado, Boulder
SUNDAY, 7th FEBURARY 2010
The Political New Wave
SCREENING
Auditorium, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street
9.00 AM Oka Oori Katha (The Outsiders)
Dir: Mrinal Sen (1977, 110 minutes, 35mm)
Introduced by Manishita Dass, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor
PANEL: 11.00 AM-
12.30 PM
Inscribing Messages: The Political Wave
Moinak Biswas, Javdapur University, Calcutta
Vestiges
of Power: Adoor Gopalakrishnan's Rat Trap and The Servile
Suranjan Ganguly, University of Colorado, Boulder
Look
Back in Angst: A Retrospective View of Mrinal Sen's Akaler Sandhane (In Search
of Famine) and the Indian New Wave's Politics of Authenticity.
Manishita Dass, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor