Precarity, asymmetries and independence in/of artistic practices from grassroots to diaspora in South Asia
As part of this year's Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival (BFMAF), Berlin based curator and researcher Abhishek Nilamber will moderate a discussion with Co-Founders of SPS Community Media Shobhit Jain and Pinky Bramha Choudhury and filmmakers Rajee Samarasinghe, Sharlene Bammboat, Suneil Sanzgiri.
The event will be broadcast live on the home page of our website at the time and date advertised above.
Abhishek Nilamber is curator of UNITED SCREENS, a long term research, exhibition and networking project based at Savvy Contemporary in Berlin that intends to create alliances of filmmakers and community cinema programmers loving independent film, sharing a condition of economic or political vulnerability, and hence being easily subjected to unfair trade-offs within the cinema industry. Drawing from the combined spirit of the anti-neocolonial Third Cinema proposition of South America, film cooperatives of Indian subcontinent, avant-garde movements of Eastern Europe, as well as, decolonial resistances of the African continent, the project looks into cinema practices active in the Global South, and inquires into the challenges and opportunities in their transnational exchange and exhibition. The aim is to work towards a model for a new technology-based distribution platform for independent films and video art particularly produced across the Global South. The project aspires to become a decentralised, peer-reviewed, peer-promoted think-tank on film cultures.
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