Disclaimer:: These films have nothing to do with Free Software per se, but related the coding culture of bangalore.
Cheers
--arky
Films for Freedom / Vikalp Bangalore presents a weekend of contrasts.
POWAQQATSI
By Godfrey Reggio with music by Philip Glass
6.30 p.m. Saturday, January 20, 2007
Centre for Film and Drama (address below)
Powaqqatsi is part of the Qatsi trilogy. It's overall focus is on natives of the Third World - the emerging, land-based cultures of Asia, India, Africa, the Middle East and South America - and how they express themselves through work and traditions. It is a celebration of the human-scale endeavor the craftsmanship, spiritual worship, labour and creativity that defines a particular culture. It is also about contrasting ways of life, and in part how the lure of mechanization and technology and the growth of mega-cities are having a negative effect on small-scale cultures.
FUN @ SUN (29 min) and JULY BOYS (26 min)
From the series CODING CULTURE
By Gautam Sonti in collaboration with Carol Upadhya
6.30 p.m. Sunday, January 21, 2007
Centre for Film and Drama (address below)
Coding Culture is a series of three films, each set in one software company of Bangalore. The films explore the cultures of outsourced work and the moulding of a new workforce.
Fun@Sun highlights the contradictory ways in which 'culture' is invoked in the global corporate workplace. While cultural sensitivity training programmes validate cultural difference, Indian software engineers are expected to conform to the dominant model of global corporate culture, by learning appropriate communication and behaviourial styles.
July Boys explores the creation of a Silicon Valley-style work culture within a 'cross-border' company, that has one leg in Bangalore and the other in Santa Clara, California. It highlights the emergence of new kinds of identities (global, transnational, cosmopolitan), that incorporate and transcend pre-existing identities such as the national and the regional.
The filmmakers of Coding Culture will be present at the screening.
Centre for Film and Drama
5th Floor, Sona Towers
71 Millers Road, Bangalore 560052 Phones: 080-22356263
Note: Starting this month, FfF,Bangalore's monthly screenings will be open to members only. Please do come in a little early and register yourselves at the screening venue.