Notes on an Uncontrolled Cinema:
Director Ashim Ahluwalia will participate in an intimate artist talk in which he will discuss his filmmaking style and the state of the film industry in his native India. The discussion will be moderated by SFFS Executive Director Ted Hope. Ahluwalia will cover a range of issues and ideas including:

·      His experience studying experimental film at Bard College
·      The Bollywood commercial film vs. the Rural Art film
·      The aesthetics of the C-grade films that he is inspired by and how they
        subvert ideas of a homogenous national identity
·      The relationship between the Indian trash film and early Surrealist cinema
·      The blurring of documentary and fiction
·      The use of found-sound and image
·      The politics of censorship
·      How all of these aesthetics and political ideas manifest themselves in his work

This event is free and open to the public. To reserve a spot, email filmmaker360@sffs.org.

 


The Artist-in-Residence program is made possible by a grant from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.