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Film by Goldsmiths academic to premiere at Indian Cinema event
Published: 28 May 2009 10:00

Event: Indian Cinema Circuits: Diasporas, Peripheries and Beyond
When: Thursday 25 and Friday 26 June, 2009
Location: The Old Cinema, Regent Campus, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW

Cinema III - a film made by Nirmal Puwar (Goldsmiths, Department of Sociology) and Sanjay Sharma (Brunel University) - will be screened for the first time on 25 June at the Indian Cinema Circuits: Diasporas, Peripheries and Beyond conference.

Exploring different collaborative methods for engaging with complex histories and futurities through in-habitation of (public) space, the film calls upon voice, sound, colour, stone and paper. Menace, melancholia and every day practice move as layered textures in concurrence and tension.

The film is part of the project 'A Fading Public Space: Coventry Ritz Cinema' and is funded by the British Academy. It was produced with Ioanna Karavela in a close collaborative relationship with sound artist Shervin Shaeri, cinematographers Des and Tom Seal, technical paper artist Antoinette Brown and film editor Domina Favata.

The film layers the voices of community activists Jitey Samra, Erskine Howell and Ann Small; each of whom have differing intimate relationships to the cinema which has sat as a ruin for over twenty years, is due for demolition and was at one time a thriving South Asian cinema, owned by forty shareholders in the post-war period.

The Indian Cinema Circuits: Diasporas, Peripheries and Beyond conference will focus on questions of circulation, with particular reference to 'peripheral' sites, where, in many cases, Indian films have been watched since the 1930s, and aims to complicate accounts that position Bollywood as a recent global phenomenon.

Notes to Editors
Cinema III will premiere on Thursday 25 June, 2009 during a panel at 4.15pm

For more information about the film visit http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/methods-lab/projects.php

Read related academic material written by Nirmal Puwar at http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g910296530~db=all and http://sac.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/10/2/253

The event is organised by SOAS and the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) at the University of Westminster.

The conference organisers are Atticus Narain (an5@soas.ac.uk) and Ranita Chatterjee R.Chatterjee@westminster.ac.uk).

For further information
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