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Mayakkam Enna
Films on Photography
Date: Mar 01, 2019
Time: 07:00 pm
Dir.:
K. Selvaraghavan
2011 | 151 min.
India / Feature
The film tells the story of an aspiring wildlife photographer Karthik and the challenges he faces at every juncture. At one point, Karthik becomes a psychic of sorts, which ultimately affects his relationship with his wife Yamini.
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NoBody's Perfect
Films on Photography
Date: Mar 02, 2019
Time: 07:00 pm
Dir.:
Niko von Glasow
2008 | 84 min.
German / Docu
Director Niko von Glasow, a grown-up thalidomide child, is looking for other affected people to create a nude calendar so that the perception of disabled bodies changes. The film shows the process of making this calendar.
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Harry Gruyaert
Films on Photography
Date: Mar 03, 2019
Time: 07:00 pm
Dir.:
Gerrit Messiaen
2018 | 70 min.
Belgium / Docu
75 year old Magnum member Harry Gruyaert's life is saved by colour. Harry grows up in a strict and traditional Catholic Flemish family.
His father forbids him to become a photographer because he sees it as sinful. So he decides to leave his country and travel. Coming from a repressed and grey background he discovers the lights and colour of Europe. Driven by hatred and love and the irresistible desire to be a photographer, he becomes a pioneer in European colour photography.
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Raghu Rai: An Unframed Portrait
Films on Photography
Date: Mar 04, 2019
Time: 07:00 pm
Dir.:
Avani Rai
2017 | 55 min.
Indian / Docu
Raghu Rai is the father of Indian photography. His story is told by young Avani Rai, who has to fight for her own voice in the shadow of her father. For over fifty years, Raghu Rai has witnessed the transformation of India.
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Everlasting Moments
Films on Photography
Date: Mar 07, 2019
Time: 07:00 pm
Dir.:
Jan Troell
2008 | 131 min.
Sweden / Feature
Sweden, early 1900s - an era of social change and unrest, war and poverty. A young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The camera grants her the eyes to view the world, and empowers her over several decades to raise and nurture her family of six children and an alcoholic, womanizing and sometimes violent, although ultimately loving, husband.
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Between the Lines
Films on Photography
Date: Mar 17, 2019
Time: 07:00 pm
Dir.:
Thomas Wartmann
2005 | 95 min.
Germany / Doc
"Between the Lines" documents the efforts of photographer Anita Khemka to get closer to the life of the hijras, the eunuchs of India. As outsiders on the margins of society, they live an existence full of contradictions: hijras are infertile, yet in the eyes of many Indians they have the gift of donating fertility.
And although they are castrated, eroticism is omnipresent in their lives. Between the Lines accompanies three of these special people.
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City of God
Films on Photography
Date: Mar 18, 2019
Time: 07:00 pm
Dir.: Fernando Meirelles
2002 | 130 min.
Brazil / Feature
City of God is told through the eyes of Buscape, a poor young fisherman's son who dreams of becoming a photographer one day. His story narrates the violence and corruption surrounding the city and the rise and fall of one of the city's most notorious bosses, Li'l Ze. As war wages on the streets Buscape's only way out of this violent life is to expose its brutality to the world through his pictures.
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Witkin and Witkin
Films on Photography
Date: Mar 19, 2019
Time: 07:00 pm
Dir.: Trisha Ziff
2017 | 90 min.
Mexico / Docu
Witkin & Witkin explores the worlds of identical twins, Joel-Peter world famous photographer and Jerome, painter and life long educator. An intensely human film that addresses the philosophy of their practices, their art and personal relationship. Through the voices of the women in their lives, the wives, the models, the studio assistant, the collector, we gain access to their worlds. A film about visual perception, the process of ageing, the relationship between painting and photography.
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The Woodmans
Films on Photography
Date: Mar 20, 2019
Time: 07:00 pm
Dir.: Scott Willis
?2010 | 82 min.?
USA / Doc
Francesca Woodman's haunting images, many of them nude self-portraits, now reside in the pantheon of great photography from the late 20th century. The daughter of artists Betty and Charles Woodman, Francesca was a precocious RISD graduate, who came to New York with the intention of setting the art world on fire. But in 1981, as a despondent 22-year-old, she committed suicide. THE WOODMANS beautifully interweaves the young artist's work with interviews with the parents who have nurtured her professional reputation these past 30 years, while continuing to make art of their own.
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The Host
Films on Photography
Date: Mar 21, 2019
Time: 07:00 pm
Dir.: Miranda Pennel
2015 | 60 min.
Italy / Docu
A filmmaker turns forensic detective as she pieces together hundreds of photographs in search of what she believes to be a buried history, only to find herself inside the story she is researching. The Host investigates the activities of British Petroleum (BP) in Iran; a tale of power, imperial hubris and catastrophe. While the tectonic plates of geopolitical conspiracy shift in the background, the film asks us to look, and look again, at images produced by the oil company and personal photos taken by its British staff in Iran– including the filmmaker’s parents– not for what they show, but for what they betray. The Host is about the stories we tell about ourselves and others, the facts and fictions we live by – and their consequences.
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Mundasupatti
Films on Photography
Date: Mar 24, 2019
Time: 07:00 pm
Dir.: Ram Kumar
2014 | 148 min.
Tamil / Feature
In the village Mundasupatti, rooted with superstitious beliefs like posing for a photograph leads to instant death, a photographer from a nearby town is called to capture the image of a dying village head. Things get spicy when he falls in love with the already-engaged Kalaivani from the same village, while messing up the photo of the village head who has since been cremated.
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