Taking Sides (108 min; 2001; dvd; English)
Director: István Szabó
Multiple award winner including Special Award, Hungarian Film Critics Awards 2003; ADF Cinematography Award; Best Actor; Best Director; Kodak Award; Signis Award, Mar del Plata Film Festival 2002; Jury Prize, Valenciennes International Festival of Action and Adventure Films 2002
Film on the renowned conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Dr. Wilhelm Furtwängler. Taking Sides offers an intriguing examination of the role of an artist under a tyrannical regime - which, in the case of the Nazis, was one that revered classical music. To what extent can an individual be blamed for a society's atrocities
Mozart's Don Giovanni (177 min; 1954; dvd; English subtitles)
Director: Paul Czinner
Salzburg production with Cesare Siepe, Otto Edelmann, Lisa della Casa
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler
The first opera ever to be filmed and considered by many as one of the greatest production of this much loved opera
Arte-Kettle Garden
An exhibition of painted kettles by eminent senior artists; and paintings and sculptures around the theme of child labour and Right to Education
Inauguration by Nila Madhab Panda, well-known filmmaker on Friday, 31st May 2013 at 18:30
A BOOK LAUNCH - LIFE
BY SHRI NILESH NEEL (A COLLECTION OF POETRY IN UDU AND HINDI)
PUBLISHED BY
PEN TO PRINT SOLUTIONS LIMITED, UNITED KINGDOM
TO BE RELEASED BY DR. ASHOK VAJPEYI, EMINENT HINDI POET AND CRITIC
CHAIR: DR. SURESH K. GOEL, DIRECTOR GENERAL, ICCR
The Open Frame
(57 min; HDV; 2011; English)
Director: Chetan Shah who will introduce the film
Screening will be followed by a discussion
The film tracks the artistic and personal journey of painter S.G. Vasudev: his early years, the establishment of Cholamandal Artists' Village; his creative process; his collaborations with craftsmen; and his sustained efforts to nourish and foster the art world. The film structured around Vasudev's creation of a painting from start to finish, is a visually rich celebration of colour and texture
Bharatanatyam Recital
Saanjhi, Traditional Kalakaar
(74 min; 2012; HDV; English & with subtitles)
Director: Devika Gamkhar who will introduce the film
Screening will be followed by a discussion
Film on the art of Saanjhi and the artisans from Braj region of Mathura, Vrindavan and Govardhan who have been practicing this age old tradition. Focusing on three artists, also brothers and their relationship with their art, the river Yamuna; on age-old Saanjhi songs sung by girls who make Saanjhi out of cowdung in Govardhan
Galapagos Islands
POSTPONED TO THURSDAY, 6TH JUNE 2013
Illustrated lecture by Sudha Mahalingam, travel writer and photographer who will speak about her recent trip to the unique islands which played a key role in Charles Darwin's theory of evolution
Chair: Shri Ravi Singh, CEO, World Wide Fund for Nature India
Romeo, Juliet and 7 Clowns (70 min)
Designed and directed by Sukhmani Kohli
Presented by Purple Mangoes, Chandigarh
Adapted from William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", the play explores the juxtaposition of clowning and Romeo and Juliet's love story
