Das Filmforum der HBK präsentiert im Sommersemester 2022:

Montag | 25.04.22 | 19:00 h

Harkat Mumbai – बमबरम Bambaram (a spinning top)

(Zu Gast: Sheba Alexander and Karan Suri Talwar)

At its very core, this photochemical film lab programme by Harkat Studios explores the art and craft of making on celluloid, while integrating identity, politics, belonging, intimacy, senses, time and space, and finding a homegrown voice in the context of experimental image-making. The films here traverse through multiple shades, either with deliberate observation or subconscious intention. It is our attempt at re-contextualising our own understandings and personal histories. – As a collective of makers, we seek to shift the vocabulary from ‘experimental’ to that of the sanskrit word ‘prayōga’, which has several different connotations in translation, including design, contrivance, practice, device, plan. The term prayōga suggests the eternal quest, a continuing process, bodies in transit. (Harkat Studios)

Filmprogramm (ca. 50 min):

Tanya Dixit - Deen (4:38 min | 2019)
Harkat Lab collective - Chinnamasta (4:13 min | 2021)
Simran - Safa (3:15 min | 2021)
Tanya Dixit - Re: (3:00 min | 2021)
Khushi&Yash Thakkar & Kedar Sonigra - An Ode to Phools (3:52 min | 2021)
workshop group - Killing your darlings (4:49 min | 2018)
Sharmistha Saha - Jenga (1:29 min | 2018)
Savyasachi Anju Prabir - Static Bombay (1:25 min | 2018)
Karan Suri Talwar - 16mm Selfie (3:05 min | 2019)
Namrata - Oh, you (3:00 min | 2021)
Mashitshila - Tuesday has its charms (2:30 min | 2021)
Tanvi Chitre - how do you love? (4:00 min | 2021)
Sheba Alexander - Atta (3:00 min | 2021)
Namrata Sanghani - Embroidery Bitch (2:28 min | 2019)

(All films are made on 16mm film and digitised for exhibition.
Some films will be sceened in their original 16mm-version).

Harkat is a film lab and an alternative arts and performance space based in Mumbai, taking many forms and identities across mediums. We enable artists and makers with tools and knowledge of working with the celluloid medium through facilitating year long screenings, workshops and an annual 16mm film festival. The lab works in conjunction with and speaks to a lot of other work that Harkat does in performance art making, and the intersection between performance and film.

[ www.space.harkat.in ]

[ Abbildung oben: aus dem Film „Chinnamasta“ von Harkat Lab collective ]