Mendelssohn Unknown: Portrait of composer, pianist and conductor Felix Mendelssohn 
(53 min; 2009; Italian/English/German and with subtitles)
Director: Angelo Bozzolini

The most complete and up-to-date documentary about Felix Mendelssohn ever made till now.

The narrative structure is based on the original letters of Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny, combined with evocative period images made in Super8. Some of the most important moments of the composer's life: his training, his religious and cultural identity, his journey to Italy, his relation with Bach and his rediscovery, the Leipzig years, the oblivion following his death and the recent unearthing of many important unpublished works.

A blend of music and words featuring some of the most distinguished Mendelssohn specialists, including Riccardo Chailly, Steven Isserlis, Lang Lang, Kurt Masur, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Roberto Prosseda, and Charles Rosen.

Human, All Too Human was a BBC television documentary that originally aired in 1999. Taking its title from Nietzsche’s book of aphorisms Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, the three-part series covers the lives and work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre. Although biographies, the overall theme was an exploration of the philosophy of Existentialism, as developed by these radical European thinkers.

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(49 min; English)
Director: Louise Wardle

Sartre: The Road to Freedom investigates the life and works of French philosopher of Jean-Paul Sartre, a key figure in the philosophy of existentialism. Sartre’s philosophy centred around an exploration of what it means to be free, the relationship between consciousness and unconsciousness, and the belief that it was up to individual human beings to give meaning and purpose to their lives.

Sartre: The Road to Freedom portrays some of the central concepts of Sartre’s philosophy and paints a picture of what the philosopher’s life was like. It is one of the rare documentaries that offers an English-speaking audience a closer look into his life, featuring interviews with de Beauvoir herself.

https://watchdocumentaries.com/sartre-the-road-to-freedom/

Shri Krishen Khanna, artist will speak on Many Facets of a Painter

Krishen Khanna was born in 1925 in Lyallpur, or Faisalabad, in Punjab, now in Pakistan. He studied at the Imperial Service College, England, from 1938-42 as a Rudyard Kipling scholar. Returning to Lahore for a course in English literature at Government College, he simultaneously took evening classes at the Mayo School of Art. He moved with his family to Shimla following Partition and later shifted to Bombay and began a career in banking. His works were first featured in a group exhibition in 1949 and he held his first solo exhibition in 1955.

In 1961 he became a full-time artist. With a Rockfeller Fellowship, he travelled to Japan in 1962 and since then, he has widely exhibited in India and abroad and is recognised as one of India’s leading artists. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1990. He lives and works in New Delhi.

(Collaboration: J.D. Centre of Art)

Zoom Registration: https://zoom.us/j/95807207008
Meeting ID: 958 072 07008

PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

By Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain and Arun Tiwari (New Delhi, Sakal Media Pvt. Ltd.: 2021)

Release of the book followed by a discussion

Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC

Discussants: Prof. K. Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India; Justice Shabihul Hasnain ‘Shastri’, Chairman, Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission; Shri Pallava Bagla, science journalist; and Prof. Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain, Honorary Professor and National Science Chair, Science and Engineering Research Board

Moderator: Ms Jasleen Vohra

PHYSICAL PROGRAMME

Hope Behind Bars: Notes from Indian Prisons

Edited by Sanjoy Hazarika and Madhurima Dhanuka (New Delhi, Macmillan: 2022)

Launch of the book followed by a discussion

Chair: Justice Deepak Gupta, former Judge, Supreme Court of India will release the book and chair the discussion

Discussants: Ms. Vrinda Grover, lawyer and Human Rights Activist; Shri Sanjoy Hazarika, co-editor of the book; and

Ms Madhurima Dhanuka co-editor of the book

Moderator: Justice Madan Lokur, former Judge, Supreme Court of India