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6:30 PM
Encounter 17
Film Viewing & Appreciation|as part of Basement21 @ Goethe-Institut
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Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Auditorium, Chennai
- Language Englisch
- Price All are welcome
K. Hariharan (film director) examines narrative structures in Meshes of the Afternoon, Maya Deren
as part of Basement21 @ Goethe-Institut, a continual series of contemporary art events
A series of events, presenting contemporary practices of live arts in India, comprising performances, lecture-demonstrations, workshops and more, leading to the annual contemporary dance festival – March Dance, jointly presented by Goethe-Institut Chennai and Basement 21 since 2017.
Maya Deren was an American experimental filmmaker and important part of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer, and photographer. Her experimental short film, Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) incorporates repeated images, slow motion, and a mysterious cloaked figure to examine an emotional experience. The film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 1990 due to its cultural and historical significance.
Director K. Hariharan presents a narratological analysis of this short film and explores ways in which Maya Deren, a dancer, has delved into the cinematic sphere to express her ideas on feminism. In the process he unravels the distinctions between narration and narrative to finally integrate form and content as one totality.
Location
No 4 Rutland Gate 5th Street
Chennai 600006
India