Kasturi kasturi.basu@gmail.com [docuwallahs2]
2018-09-04 19:07:01 UTC
Dear Friends,
On 9th September, our Monthly Film Screening and Conversation will focus on
understanding the NRC in Assam. Please join, and inform your friends. We
begin at 5 p.m.
Facebook page for the programme:
*https://www.facebook.com/events/711910022475114/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/711910022475114/>*
Zindabad!
People's Film Collective
*FAULT LINE ASSAM*
*Monthly Film Screening & Conversations organised by People's Film
Collective *
*9th September| 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. | Jogesh Mime Academy (Kalighat Park)*
// Film screening //
*WHAT THE FIELDS REMEMBER*
*Dir: Subasri Krishnan*
Bangla, English (English subtitles)
52 minutes / 2015
// Conversation //
*"Migration and NRC in Assam"*
Audio-visual presentation in Bangla by *Debarshi Das*
*The talk will be followed by an open discussion.*
*FREE ENTRY*
Contact: 9163736863 | ***@gmail.com
*Synopsis of Film:*
*On 18th February 1983, from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, more than 2000 Muslims
were killed by a mob armed with sticks and scythes in the town of Nellie
and its surrounding villages in Assam. The mob had a vendetta against the
families that had migrated from former East Bengal. Peopleâs homes were
burnt down and their crops destroyed. Lush green fields along the banks of
the Kopili river became the site of bloodshed. Most of those who died were
women, children and the elderly. Not a single person has been convicted for
the gruesome massacre and the survivors have been given pitiful
compensation. The massacre has virtually been wiped out from the nationâs
collective memory.*
* The documentary revisits the massacre three decades later and is a film
as much about the act of remembering as about the story behind it. Through
the recollections of two survivors, Sirajuddin Ahmed and Abdul Khayer, and
their struggles of coping with loss, the film acts as a reminder of how
memories of past traumas remain despite conscious and unconscious attempts
to erase them. The film explores ideas about violence, memory and justice.
It also tries to understand how physical spaces that have witnessed the
violence continue to mark peopleâs relationship to history and memory. What
the Fields Remember also attempts to raise larger questions around
collective memory â âwhy some things get memorialized and others donât.â
Synopsis of Talk:*
*The official draft of the NRC, published in Assam on 30th July, saw a
*PEOPLE'S FILM COLLECTIVE*
*Email: *****@gmail.com* <***@gmail.com>
*Phone: **+91-9163736863* <091637%2036863>* (also WhatsApp)*
*Facebook: **http://www.facebook.com/KolkataPeoplesFilmFestival/*
<http://www.facebook.com/KolkataPeoplesFilmFestival/>* (page)*
*http://www.facebook.com/groups/PeoplesFilmCollective/*
<http://www.facebook.com/groups/PeoplesFilmCollective/>* (group)*
*ABOUT*
*People's Film Collective is an independent, autonomous, people-funded
cultural-political collective based in West Bengal. Formed in 2013, it
believes in the power of films as a weapon of pedagogy as well as
alternative media for people. PFC organises monthly film screenings &
conversations in Kolkata and travels in Bengal with films & movement
videos. PFC organises two annual film festivals - the 'Kolkata People's
Film Festival' (KPFF) and the 'Frames of Freedom' and publishes a magazine
(Pratirodher Cinema). PFC collaborates with like-minded collectives of the
working class and peopleâs movements.*
*Kolkata Monthly Documentary Screenings and ConversationsKolkata People's
Film Festival (KPFF)Frames of Freedom Film FestivalLittle CinemaTravelling
CinemaPeople's MediaPeople's Study CircleProtirodher Cinema: film and
counterculture magazine*
*Campaign for People's Unity* (a joint initiative with several groups and
individuals)
* --*
On 9th September, our Monthly Film Screening and Conversation will focus on
understanding the NRC in Assam. Please join, and inform your friends. We
begin at 5 p.m.
Facebook page for the programme:
*https://www.facebook.com/events/711910022475114/
<https://www.facebook.com/events/711910022475114/>*
Zindabad!
People's Film Collective
*FAULT LINE ASSAM*
*Monthly Film Screening & Conversations organised by People's Film
Collective *
*9th September| 5 p.m. - 8 p.m. | Jogesh Mime Academy (Kalighat Park)*
// Film screening //
*WHAT THE FIELDS REMEMBER*
*Dir: Subasri Krishnan*
Bangla, English (English subtitles)
52 minutes / 2015
// Conversation //
*"Migration and NRC in Assam"*
Audio-visual presentation in Bangla by *Debarshi Das*
*The talk will be followed by an open discussion.*
*FREE ENTRY*
Contact: 9163736863 | ***@gmail.com
*Synopsis of Film:*
*On 18th February 1983, from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, more than 2000 Muslims
were killed by a mob armed with sticks and scythes in the town of Nellie
and its surrounding villages in Assam. The mob had a vendetta against the
families that had migrated from former East Bengal. Peopleâs homes were
burnt down and their crops destroyed. Lush green fields along the banks of
the Kopili river became the site of bloodshed. Most of those who died were
women, children and the elderly. Not a single person has been convicted for
the gruesome massacre and the survivors have been given pitiful
compensation. The massacre has virtually been wiped out from the nationâs
collective memory.*
* The documentary revisits the massacre three decades later and is a film
as much about the act of remembering as about the story behind it. Through
the recollections of two survivors, Sirajuddin Ahmed and Abdul Khayer, and
their struggles of coping with loss, the film acts as a reminder of how
memories of past traumas remain despite conscious and unconscious attempts
to erase them. The film explores ideas about violence, memory and justice.
It also tries to understand how physical spaces that have witnessed the
violence continue to mark peopleâs relationship to history and memory. What
the Fields Remember also attempts to raise larger questions around
collective memory â âwhy some things get memorialized and others donât.â
Synopsis of Talk:*
*The official draft of the NRC, published in Assam on 30th July, saw a
population of 40 lakhs rendered non-citizens. What is the history behind
the NRC? What has the demand for NRC in Assam got to do with migration from
East Bengal to Assam, and with the Partition? What is the nature of
politics behind the NRC? What lies in future? What will be the fate of 40
lakh people? Many questions hang in the air. Let us take stock.*
*-- *the NRC? What has the demand for NRC in Assam got to do with migration from
East Bengal to Assam, and with the Partition? What is the nature of
politics behind the NRC? What lies in future? What will be the fate of 40
lakh people? Many questions hang in the air. Let us take stock.*
*PEOPLE'S FILM COLLECTIVE*
*Email: *****@gmail.com* <***@gmail.com>
*Phone: **+91-9163736863* <091637%2036863>* (also WhatsApp)*
*Facebook: **http://www.facebook.com/KolkataPeoplesFilmFestival/*
<http://www.facebook.com/KolkataPeoplesFilmFestival/>* (page)*
*http://www.facebook.com/groups/PeoplesFilmCollective/*
<http://www.facebook.com/groups/PeoplesFilmCollective/>* (group)*
*ABOUT*
*People's Film Collective is an independent, autonomous, people-funded
cultural-political collective based in West Bengal. Formed in 2013, it
believes in the power of films as a weapon of pedagogy as well as
alternative media for people. PFC organises monthly film screenings &
conversations in Kolkata and travels in Bengal with films & movement
videos. PFC organises two annual film festivals - the 'Kolkata People's
Film Festival' (KPFF) and the 'Frames of Freedom' and publishes a magazine
(Pratirodher Cinema). PFC collaborates with like-minded collectives of the
working class and peopleâs movements.*
*Kolkata Monthly Documentary Screenings and ConversationsKolkata People's
Film Festival (KPFF)Frames of Freedom Film FestivalLittle CinemaTravelling
CinemaPeople's MediaPeople's Study CircleProtirodher Cinema: film and
counterculture magazine*
*Campaign for People's Unity* (a joint initiative with several groups and
individuals)
* --*