Jamnapaar
Director: Abhinava Bhattacharyya | Duration: 24 minutes | Language: Hindi
‘Jamnapaar’ is a Hindi documentary film by filmmaker Abhinava Bhattacharyya. The film lurks on the Yamuna’s edge seeking to explore how the inhabitants of the Yamuna relate to its degraded presence, the fragile nostalgia of an unknowable past and the horror of its unthinkable future.
The screening was followed by a discussion between directors Abhinava Bhattacharya, Prantik Basu, and academic Nithin Manayath.
Discussants
Abhinava Bhattacharyya is a freelance filmmaker and lives in Delhi. He is an alumni of the Creative Documentary Course at the Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts and Communication (SACAC). He has been working and trying to gain experience in the different disciplines of filmmaking for the past few years. He has been able to gain experience in writing, direction, camera and sound. A deep curiosity in the discipline of visual storytelling along with the need to express drives him to explore the thin crack that runs between documentary and fiction, between reality and madness.
Prantik Basu graduated in English literature from Calcutta University and then studied film direction and screenplay writing at the Film & Television Institute of India, Pune. A filmmaker by practice, Prantik has been making short films and experimental documentaries since 2007. His student short 1,2 (2011) received the Indian Jury Prize at the Mumbai International Film Festival in 2012. His films, Wind Castle (2014) and Makara (2013) have been screened at various film festivals including Oberhausen, Rome Film Festival, Experimenta & Kochi-Muziris Biennale. His latest film Sakhisona (2016) won the Tiger Award for Short Films at the 46th Rotterdam International Film Festival and has been shown at several festivals worldwide.
Nithin Manyath is a Professor of Communications at Mount Carmel College, Bengaluru. He is also the co-organiser and curator of the Bangalore Queer Film Festival.
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Water Walk by Biome Environmental Trust - a guided walk exploring Ulsoor lake and Bengaluru’s water systems