transmediale 06 - Berlin
In the transmediale.06 Salon programme, Alok Nandi will be speaking about the construction of filmic reality in the famous Bengali film maker Ritwik Ghatak’s work. The talk and presentation will deal with Ghatak’s filmic artistic methods through which Brecht as well as Marx and Tagore, and Indian epics texts, were remediated into avantgarde films to construct realities catalysing Bengal collective memories.
Furthermore, Nandi will relate this to his new media praxis (fluxtopia.net) and discuss more general film-theoretical considerations about the ‘actualite’ of avantgarde narratives, on the one hand, and the historical background in Bengal, memory, and cultural reflection, on the other.
Speaking in Berlin on Feb. 5th, 2006 at transmediale 06