Liebe Visuals, wir freuen uns, Euch mitzuteilen, dass Professor Heidemann den indischen Dokumentarfilmregisseur Rahul Roy dazu gewinnen konnte kommenden Dienstag, den 8.5.07, einen Workshop an unserem Institut in der Oettingenstr. 67 zu halten.

Um 18 Uhr wird im Raum 1.05 der Film Majma (Performance) in Anwesenheit des Regisseurs gezeigt. Anschließend werden wir gemeinsam mit Rahul Roy über die Thematik des Films diskutieren. Hier eine kurze Synopsis: Majma (Performance), 2001, 54 minutes: Aslam sells medicines for sexual problems on the pavements of Meena Bazaar in near Jama Masjid in Delhi… Khalifa Barkat presides over an akhara in the adjacent park and puts a group of young men through the moral and physical grind of wrestling… Through the park and the market pass hundreds of men every day… Majma explores the instability and insecurity of working class lives and its impact on male sexuality and gender relations.

Um 20 Uhr wird im gleichen Raum sein Film The City Beautiful, 2003, 78 minutes: Sunder Nagri (Beautiful City) is a small working class colony on the margins of India’s capital city, Delhi. Most families residing here come from a community of weavers. The last ten years have seen a gradual disintegration of the handloom tradition of this community under the globalisation regime. The families have to cope with change as well as reinvent themselves to eke out a living. The City Beautiful is the story of two families struggling to make sense of a world, which keeps pushing them to the margins. Radha and Bal Krishan are at a critical point in their relationship. Bal Krishan is underemployed and constantly cheated. They are in disagreement about Radha going out to work. However, through all their ups and downs they retain the ability to laugh. Shakuntla and Hira Lal hardly communicate. They live under one roof with their children but are locked in their own sense of personal tragedies gezeigt. Auch hier gibt es die Möglichkeit, im Anschluss an den Film mit Herrn Roy über seinen Film und dessen Thema zu diskutieren.

Biography: Rahul Roy completed his masters in film and TV production from the Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi in 1987 and since then has been working as an independent documentary film maker. For the last few years he has been working on the theme of masculinities. He is a recepient of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in India. read moreHis last films have been widely screened internationally including at the IDFA, International Documentary Festival in Munich, Yamagata International Documentary Festival, Hawaii International Film Festival, Hot Springs International Documentary Festival(USA), Cracow International Film Festival, RAI International Ethnographic Film Festival, Leipzig international documentary Festival and several others. He has won several prices for his films.

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