Marupakkam Online Film Screening # 22
From 6 pm, Friday (5 Nov); for 72 hours only
Film : The Outside In
Dir: Hansa Thapliyal; 25 min; English; 2019
Synopsis : What is art, in our lives? What is home? Can practising art, sharing it, give us a possibility of sharing home in the world? Two doll makers work in very different ways, with the human form. They choose to work with very simple, sometimes discarded materials. The work playfully loosens up knots of shame and fear. It lets in a more wholesome look at life and suggests a hopefulness and a desire for a more integrated, empathetic world.
Francoise Bosteels has worked as a nurse. Milan Khanolkar trained as an artist. What is it about making and sharing dolls that has meant so much to each? What new paths have the dolls made and cleared? What ambiguities have they been able to express? The film seeks to collaborate with the doll makers and the dolls, listening to them, playing and animating with them, making with the materials of the doll makers worlds. Participating in loosening the boundaries between what lies outside of us and in.
This is a film which tries to look at diversity of practice, to ask questions about the world as a larger place and a smaller one at the same time. Can each of us and our different ways of doing and being speak to each other? What kind of playful ways of looking might we need in our lives. Sometimes it takes making dolls to explore the landscapes opened up by our questions.
Interaction with the filmmaker on Sunday @ 11 am via Zoom. Message to 9940642044 for ID and password to attend the interaction.
About the filmmaker : Hansa Thapliyal, 49, is a film maker, writer and artist, whose works have tried to move between different ways of telling stories.
Her work moves between forms, looking with care, at gender, childhood and how in the less regarded spaces occupied by women and children, lie a wealth of crucial practices and resources for life.
She is an alumni of the Film and Television Insitute of India. Her diploma film, jee Karta Tha, travelled to festivals in India and abroad and is also features in the 2 dvd set from FTII, called Master Strokes, featuring a collection of special student works from across the years.
She has worked with needlework and photographs, and her work on Srinagar called His City, collaborating with a photographer from Sringar, is housed in the permanent collection of the Accademia dei Visionari at ALT in Bergamo, Italy. Her writings have been published by a small experimental press in Australia, called StartPress, as a booklet called A Shelter called Writing.
Her film ‘Have you dreamt cinema’ has been part of the cinema city programme which has travellled to various festivals( Berlinale, Kala Ghoda), as part of the Cinema City programme, besides being part of the Cinema City exhibition at NGMA across the country.
She has worked extensively on the early history of Indian cinema in Kamal Swaroop’s Phalke Project and has been co writer on Tracing Phalke, published by NFDC.
She teaches film and sometimes, textiles, at film and design schools and also works with everyday materials to conduct workshops for Agents of Ishq and Point of View, with young adults, often young women, enabling young people to talk of their lives and their sexualities.
In this film, The Outside In, she has tried to further her interest in what art can mean to us in our everyday lives.
Interaction : We invite you to an interaction with the filmmaker on 8 Nov, Sunday @ 11 am via Zoom. Message to 9940642044 for ID and password to attend the program.
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