WORKSHOP & FILM SCREENINGS: 11:00 TO 14:00 AND 15:30 TO 17:00
 

Art Appreciation Workshops and Screening of Films on Artists: 23 to 25 July 2022
Organised in collaboration with National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), the workshops will be conducted from 11:00 to 14:00 at NGMA, Jaipur House, Shershah Road, near India Gate

On 23 July 2022 at NGMA from 11:00 to 14:00
NGMA Lecture: Amrita Sher-Gil’s Artistic Legacy
Speaker: Arpana Caur, artist and scholar
Chair: Adwaita Gadanayak, sculptor, curator and Director-General, NGMA

Curated gallery walkthrough: Kshetragya
The oeuvre of ten masters of Contextual Modernism
Conducted by Meghna Vyas Arora, Curator, NGM

Live studio session inspired by Amrita Sher-Gil and Nicholas Roericj

From 15:30 to 17:00 at C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC 
Film: Amrita Sher-Gil: Une Rapsodie Indienne 
(52 min; 2002; French with English subtitles)
Director: Patrick Cazals

Introduced by Yashodhara Dalmia, art historian and curator

Shot in New Delhi, Mumbai, Simla, Budapest and Paris, the film unfolds the complex life and extraordinary oeuvre of an artist who became a legend in her lifetime, but tragically died when she was only twenty-eight
 

Designing for Rural Resilience

A talk by Kalyan Akkipedi, engineer, social entrepreneur and a fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, who since August 2010, has been leveraging local social leadership capacities in a remote drought-prone area of one of the poorest districts in India, to co-create ProtoVillage -- the prototype of a resilient village. 

Followed by a dialogue with Anisha Shekhar Mukherji, Conservation Architect, Author and Visiting Faculty at S.P.A. Delhi. 

The eighth in the bi-monthly series structured around dialogues that endeavour to present the role of architecture in contributing positively to society and to culture. Conceptualised by Anisha Shekhar Mukherji, the series, through interactions with practitioners and scholars, intends to engage with a wide variety of people - professionals and lay-persons alike.

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Fear/ La Paura (German-Italy) | Click here to watch
(83 min; 1954; Italian with English subtitles)                                                                                                           Directed by Roberto Rossellini 

Irene, the wife of a prominent scientist has managed to keep her affair with a handsome younger man a secret from her spouse—until her lover’s jealous ex initiates a blackmail scheme.

https://archive.org/details/fear-la-paura-1954

(120 min; 1988; English)
Written and Directed by Bruce Weber

Recipient of the BSFC Award for Best Documentary, Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 1990; IDA Award, International Documentary Association 1989; and Cinecritica Award, Venice Film Festival 1988

Bruce Weber's documentary looks at the life of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker. It juxtaposes footage from his early life with interviews with him and his family in his last years. Baker's life was packed with incident, including three marriages, four children, heroin use, imprisonment in Italy, and an impressive body of music.

Series director: Adrian Pennink
Recipient of the International Emmy 2008 for Best Documentary 

A six-part documentary presented by Niall Ferguson. Based on his book The Ascent of Money: The Financial History of the World, the film examines the long history of money, credit, and banking. Throughout the series, Niall Ferguson examines the origins of the pillars of the world’s financial systems, and how behind every great historical phenomenon – empires and republics, wars and revolutions – there lies a financial secret.

Episode 1: Dreams of Avarice (47 min)
From Shylock's pound of flesh to the loan sharks of Glasgow, from the "promises to pay" on Babylonian clay tablets to the Medici banking system. Niall Ferguson explains the origins of credit and debt and why credit networks are indispensable to any civilization.

The Rainman Twins (USA) | Click here to watch
(50 min; 2003; English)
Director: Dave Wagner

The fascinating story of the only identical twin autistic-savant sisters known to exist. Over 50 years time, Flo and Kay have literally memorised the world around them. They never forget a date, or a song, what they ate or the weather on any given date.

https://watchdocumentaries.com/the-rainman-twins/
 

(88 min; 1981; English)
Director: Jon H. Else

Recipient of the Eddie Award for Best Edited Documentary, American Cinema Editors, USA 1982; and Peabody Award, Peabody Awards1982

Scientists and witnesses involved in the creation and testing of the first ever atomic bomb reflect on the Manhattan project and its fascinating leader, J. Robert Oppenheimer, who upon completion of his wonderful and horrible invention became a powerful spokesperson against the nuclear arms race.

(41 min; 1995; English)
Director: Gero von Boehm 

Film on Umberto Eco, one of the world's best-selling novelists. His fiction displayed a dazzling erudition, which ranged across science, history, mythology, religion, and modern technology. Fascinated by medieval aesthetics, this profile of Eco highlights his many passions and concerns. It also looks at his novels, particularly The Island of the Day Before, a suspenseful, seafaring adventure that is full of the elements that have delighted millions of readers.

Audio-visual presentation by Shri Shail Vyas, Homi Bhabha Fellow, Mumbai, musicologist and composer

Followed by a panel discussion

Panelists: Dr. R.S. Bisht, former Joint Director General, Archaeological Survey of India; Dr. Vasant Shinde, former Vice Chancellor, Deccan College, Pune; Dr. K.N. Dikshit, former Joint Director General, Archaeological Survey of India; and Dr. B.R. Mani, former Director General, Archaeological Survey of India

Chair: Shri K.N. Shrivastava, Director IIC

Moderator: Dr. V.N. Prabhakar, former Director, Archaeological Survey of India and Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar

An introduction to a new and fascinating research on Harappan Archaeomusicology that attempts to recreate ancient sounds and music. This multidisciplinary research has revealed a large set of linguistic data that strongly points towards a language that the Harappans may have spoken. The illustrated presentation will be followed by panel discussion with leading archaeologists who will share their views and discuss the far-reaching implications of this path breaking research