This may be a good choice for the evenings before the GPLv3 event contact: Sushma Veerappa sushma@adkoli.net
Films for Freedom, Bangalore will screen LOOSE CHANGE (2005) Director: Dylan Avery Duration: 81 minutes On Saturday, August 19 and
SEVEN ISLANDS AND A METRO (2006) Director: Madhusree Dutta Duration: 100 minutes On Sunday, August 20 At 6.30pm At Centre for Film and Drama (CFD), Sona Towers, Millers Road (Ph- 22356563)
Synopsis of 'Loose Change' 'Loose Change' is the most provocative documentary on 9/11 on the market today. The film shows the direct connection between the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the United States government. Evidence is derived from news footage, scientific fact, and testimony from survivors, including emergency first responders like New York City firefighters. This hard-hitting and compelling film argues that the US government not only had prior knowledge of the attacks but was complicit in carrying them out. Ruth Frankenberg, formerly Professor of American Studies at the University of California, and now an independent writer will introduce the film. She has written on race, racism and whiteness. She has also published in the area of colonial and postcolonial discourses.
Synopsis of 'Seven Islands and a Metro' The multilingual Bombay, the Bombay of intolerance, the Bombay of closed mills, of popular culture, sprawling slums and real estate onslaughts, the metropolis of numerous ghettos, the El Dorado. This film is a tale of the cities of Bom Bahia / Bombay / Mumbai, through a tapestry of fiction, cinema vérité, art objects, found footage, sound installation and literary texts. The non-fiction feature film is structured around imaginary debates between Ismat Chugtai and Sadat Hasan Manto, the two legendary writers who lived in this metropolis, over the art of chronicling these multi-layered overlapping cities. Shot mainly during the monsoon the film portrays some extremely beautiful yet ruthlessly violent features of Bombay which, generally, are not part of the popular narratives. Madhusree Dutta, the director of the film will be present for the screening. Her works include I Live in Behrampada, on a Muslim ghetto in the context of the Bombay riots which went on to receive the Filmfare Award for best documentary and Memories of Fear, on the relation between socialising of young girls and domestic violence which won the National Award for best documentary on social issues.
As always, screenings are open to all.