The Visible and the Invisible: Film Workshop
Facilitated by Sameera Jain and Radhamohini Prasad
October 5 to 10, 2024
Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less of a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents take place.
– John Berger, A Fortunate Man
This 6-day in-person workshop works with experiments in image making and narrative to generate fresh ways of seeing.
In the process we discuss—
– Varying perspectives
– Shades of grey as they coexist
– Stereotypes and dominant narratives
– Relationships between, form, content, aesthetics and ethics
– The intersectionality of concerns around personal, political, historical,
ecological, gender, class and caste
The workshop consists of—
– Research on the ground
– Observations and writing
– Stills and video recording
– Exploration of diverse locations
– Practices in narrative construction
– Film analysis from a practitioner’s perspective
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Open to all, technical skills are not a prerequisite.
Full days, with a lunch break and two tea breaks.
Registration fee of Rs.1000 will help cover our costs. Donations for facilitators will be appreciated. Limited sponsorships based on eligibility.
Accommodation available. Please write to info@buddhapada.in to reserve your spot and to book a room.
Requirements—
– A mobile phone for taking stills and videos
– A personal laptop
About the Facilitators—
Sameera Jain is an educator, editor and director. She has a sustained interest in structuring pedagogic practice which pushes boundaries, to experiment and to interrogate accepted codes in nonfiction cinema. She was course director, Creative Documentary Course, SACAC, New Delhi, from 2013-23 and has been working in the field of cinema in various capacities for over four decades.
Radhamohini Prasad is a filmmaker from Kalimpong. She was a resident filmmaker at the Critical Art & Media Practices (Mumbai), the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (Bangalore) and a visiting faculty at the Creative Documentary Course, SACAC (New Delhi). In 2013, as a Fellow of the Unbox Fellowship Programme (New Delhi), she was a co-recipient of the AHRC Booster Fund Pitch for Law Digital, an experimental digital cartography project. Her film Machis Ko Sinka screened at Film South Asia (Kathmandu) and SIGNS: John Abraham National Award Festival (Trivandrum). Her birthplace and its circumstances have greatly influenced and shaped her work.