Akkad Bakkad - the M3 edition
A day long live stream of ‘VJ’ sets will use the public internet archive and help unpack representation of men, male, masculine through audio visual juxtapositions. The streams use a multi-channel screen of videos, text, images, memes and more to provoke discourse and explore possibly newer fragments of thought to help unpack ‘Männerbilder’.The sets will be hosted on the Harkat Interactive Virtual Stage by artists and curators, who will bring their own unique perspective to each session.
Vijay, Rahul, Anand, Sher Khan - Unpacking the Bollywood man
Popular cinema has long been dominated by heroes who have diversified through decades just as our society and its macro politics has. The range is large - whether it be a farmer fighting the Zamindari, the angry young man, the brooding lover, the ‘mother-son’ relationship, the privileged modern free-wheeling male or the more conscious empathetic man.Through a series of conversations and observations, we unpack together the representation of the Bollywood man - its real and reel juxtaposition, its micro-politics, cinematic devices and their codified ways of establishing modes of seeing, impact on mass psychology and the historical zeitgeist’s connection to these screen characters.
The idea is perhaps to understand the creation of masculinity through some of these film devices, to play around with what we have seen and possibly shape the narrative of what is yet to be written.
There will be three sessions. Each session will have a recommended viewing with a scheduled discussion.