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Emami Art Experimental Film Festival (EAEFF) returns as a five-day event from 22nd – 26th November 2023, following the debut edition’s raging success last year. EAEFF is conceived by Ushmita Sahu , Director and head Curator of Emami Art. This year, the scope of the Festival has grown to encompass twenty-two films in the competitive section + thirty-three Indian and international films across seven curated sections + Masterclasses, Filmmaker in Focus, Panel Discussions, Special screenings and more. Independent film curator and writer Raju Roychowdhury is the EAEFF 23 Festival Director.

The EAEFF 23 All India Open Call received more than three hundred entries from across the length and breadth of the country. Twenty-two outstanding entries have been selected in the competitive section by a jury of Indian filmmaker Ashish Avikunthak, Canadian experimental filmmaker and Professor of Film Production at NSCAD University Solomon Nagler and EAEFF 23 Festival Director Raju Roychowdhury.

Additionally, the jury has selected two films, HYPNAGOGIA ( 2023), by Tushar Nongthombam fromImphal, Manipur, in the short to mid duration Category along with  I Wonder If Daylights Were White Nights or Something Childish But Very Natural (2022) by Sibi Sekar from Chennai, Tamil Nadu in the long duration category for two awards of excellence.

The other films selected by the jury (in alphabetical order) are :

Ankai-Tankai (2022) by Mansingh Chandravanshi; Baauji (2023) by Vikram Singh ; Bela (2021) by Prantik Basu;  Dustbin of a Middle-Class Family (2021) and   Dustbin of a Politician (2022) by Parashar Naik ; Flesh in Flux (2021) by Prerit Jain; Locust Review Presents: TWENTY-ONE HEADLINES (2022) by Anupam Roy and Sudip Chakraborty ; Marks of Wound Marks of Woe (2022) by Koushik Mitra ; Memoir s (2021) by Debjit Bagchi ; Memories of a City (2023) by Sarvesh Singh Hada ; Museum of Memories (2022) by Navneet Mishra ; My Courtyard (2021) by Shrutiman Deori ; No Superhero (2023) by Stuti Bansal ; Normalization of a Disaster (2020) by Devadeep Gupta ; Nott – The Earthen Pot (2023) by M.K. Raina ;  Of Other Spaces (2021) by Sibi Sekar ; On How the Art Flows (2023) by Pralay Mistri ; Slow Wave (2023) by Pooja Kadam ; The Frog is the Pond’s Witness (2022) by Anuj Malhotra ; WordCount (2023) by Srotoswini Sinha.

CURATED SECTION

The Festival will screen thirty-three Indian and international films across seven curated sessions by filmmakers of international renown. The curators include - artist and filmmaker Riar Rizaldi from Indonesia, who works predominantly with the medium of moving images and sound, both in the black box of cinema settings and in spatial presentation as installation. Rizaldi brings a selection of films from Southeast Asia, focusing on Indonesia, that investigate, interpret, and create myths, either directly or indirectly, with various approaches.

Harkat is an international boutique arts studio passionate about films, new media, community spaces, and contemporary art. Based in Mumbai & Berlin, filmmakers Simran Ankolkar , Namrata Sanghani, and Karan Talwar will bring a lecture screening, presenting short films from the lab and speaking about the context of the works and the lab itself.

Canadian experimental filmmaker and Professor of Film Production at NSCAD University, co-founder of WNDX: Festival of the Moving Image in Winnipeg Solomon Nagler, curates an anthology of Canadian experimental films including emerging, mid-career and established filmmakers titled Landscape, Home and Abstraction in Canadian Experimental Film.  

Gusztáv Hámos and Katja Pratschke  are media artists and artistic researchers whose artistic practice includes video, film, photography, interactive and site-specific installations, walk-in 360° cinema spaces, as well as the curation of exhibitions, symposia, film series, workshops, and publications. Their curation titled Time Travel Images/ Photofilms purports to look at photofilms and how they reference the past in the “cinema’s present” and thus permits us to think (about) all further time dimensions.

Under the EA Locus in Focus   banner, which offers discursive spaces to local and regional communities through ongoing short and long-term projects, the festival brings a selection curated by a Guwahati-based filmmaker and video artist Mehdi Jahan of experimental films crafted by young multidisciplinary artists from East and Northeast India to contemplate the intimate relationship between their immediate socio-political reality and collective memory.

FILMMAKER IN FOCUS

German artist/filmmaker Wolfgang Lehmann is the EAEFF 23 Filmmaker in Focus . He will present a selection of films and two masterclasses. Working with the materiality of the image in film or video is an artistic strategy that uses the image as a central part of the visual design. Lehmann intends to take the audience on a subjective journey through the possibilities of working with film and video as material in the artistic film and video history concerning his work. Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata supports this section of the festival .

SPECIAL SCREENING, WORKSHOPS & MORE

A special screening of Argentinian experimental filmmaker and musician Claudio Caldini’s 2022 short film Promesa will be on view throughout. The Festival also includes Masterclasses by Indian filmmaker Ashish Avikunthak and Switzerland-based contemporary artist, researcher, and writer Budhaditya Chattopadhyay . The Festival also includes several Panel Discussions and conversations.

Dates: 

• Mehdi Jahan
• Solomon Nagler
• Wolfgang Lehmann
• Gusztáv Hámos
• Katja Pratschke
• Tushar Nongthombam
• Claudio Caldini
• Ashish Avikunthak
• Budhaditya Chattopadhyay

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22.11. –26.11.2023

Emami Art Experimental Film Festival 2023

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The Emami Art Experimental Film Festival (EAEFF)’23 open call aims to enhance the most innovative aspects of contemporary cinema’s audio-visual languages and reduce the distance between artistic research and public intellectual involvement.

Particular attention will be paid to young and independent filmmakers and to self-made no-budget works as a result of the individual search. A variety of art forms are welcomed: video art, experimental film, animation, music video, flickr film, found footage, essay film, diary film, home movie, hand-painted film, mockumentary (mock artistic documentary), audiovisual performance, and other structural innovations. Short films (up to 20 minutes) and mid-length films (up to 30 minutes), and long-duration films (up to 60 minutes) made during 2020-23 are eligible for the competition section.

Submissions are welcome from emerging and established artists who subvert and redefine traditional narrative forms and broaden our understanding and perception by discovering a new film form and a language founded in their practice-based experience.

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Kolkata, Uncover Some Cinematic Gems At The Emami Art Experimental Film Festival 2023

When cinema is reduced to a mere source of entertainment and not an art form, experimentation with the medium ceases to take place. Mainstream Bollywood and Hollywood take recourse in tried and tested methods of film-making that package the same content in the same format enacted by the star-studded cast of familiar faces, which the viewers are more than happy to consume. This breeds stagnation. As a result, creating off-beat experimental films is the call of the hour.

But there is no denying the fact that one of the main purposes of a movie is to make money. Without funds, even the greatest of scripts do not translate themselves into films. This is why making experimental films is often viewed as a ‘risky venture’, as they do not bring in a ‘blockbuster’ level of money and viewer loyalty. Let’s face it, in India, even if a movie has no plot, no logic, or even any quality acting, all you’d need to do is slap a poster of a Baadshah or a Bhai, and the film will rake in money like a Las Vegas casino. In such dire times, as cine lovers, we must be a patron, promote, or even simply watch contemporary experimental films that are not just money-making machinery but a truer reflection of the life and times we live in.

With that in mind, I’d like to introduce you to the Emami Art Experimental Film Festival (EAEFF) which is set to captivate audiences once again with its eagerly anticipated return. Following the resounding success of its debut edition last year, this five-day event promises to be a vibrant celebration of Indian and international experimental films, offering a platform for groundbreaking cinematic expressions.

The second edition of the Emami Art Experimental Film Festival comes with an astonishing number of films, curated programs and masterclasses. The festival started focusing mainly on filmmakers from the East and Northeastern regions, but this year, it has expanded to the All-India level, receiving almost 300 experimental and independent films from all over the country. Although the festival started as a venture to create a platform for emerging video artists and filmmakers from the eastern region, with the overwhelming response and participation by the students, academicians, cinephiles, and artists, we expanded the second edition of the festival to all India levels. Apart from the films in competition selected through the open call, the festival holds many curated programs by Indian and Internationally renowned artists and filmmakers. I believe it is essential to have interdisciplinary dialogues between art forms in a contemporary art space. I congratulate all the award winners and makers of the films in the official competition.

Richa Agarwal, CEO, Emami Art

Conceived by Ushmita Sahu, Director and Head Curator of Emami Art, the festival has expanded its scope this year to encompass a diverse array of cinematic experiences. With a lineup featuring twenty-two films in the competitive section, along with thirty-three Indian and international films across seven curated sections, the EAEFF 23 is poised to be a melting pot of creativity, multiculturalism and innovation.

Ushmita Sahu envisions the Emami Art Experimental Film Festival as a discursive space for understanding moving images as an art form echoing the sentiment that films should be conceived as mediums beyond just entertainment. Recognizing the dearth of platforms that fully embrace experimental , alternative, and independent films in India, Sahu emphasizes the importance of recognizing and supporting visual representations that defy categorization. The festival aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogues and provide exposure to contemporary experimental practices, both from India and around the world.

Raju Roychowdhury, the Festival Director, echoes this sentiment, emphasizing the festival's goal of offering an indispensable experience that fosters vivid imaginativeness and emotional energy. With curated programs from Germany, Southeast Asia, Canada, and Northeast India, the festival promises to expand the audience's intimacy with the cinematic medium not only in India but around the world.

The EAEFF 23 All India Open Call received an overwhelming response, with over three hundred entries from across the country. A jury comprising Indian filmmaker Ashish Avikunthak, Canadian experiential filmmaker Solomon Nagler, and Festival Director Raju Roychowdhury selected twenty-two outstanding entries for the competitive section. Additionally, two films were awarded excellence in the short to mid-duration and long-duration categories, showcasing the wealth of talent and creativity in the Indian experimental film landscape.

The festival's curated sessions will feature thirty-three Indian and international films across seven sections, curated by filmmakers of international renown. From exploring myths in Southeast Asia to delving into Canadian experimental film and examining the relationship between socio-political reality and collective memory in East and Northeast India, these sessions promise to offer a rich tapestry of cinematic experiences.

German artist and filmmaker Wolfgang Lehmann takes center stage as the EAEFF 23 Filmmaker in Focus, presenting a selection of films and masterclasses that delve into the artistic strategies of working with film and video as material. In addition to the screenings, the festival will feature a special tribute to Argentinian experimental filmmaker and musician Claudio Caldini, masterclasses by renowned figures in experimental filmmaking, and engaging panel discussions, offering a holistic and immersive experience for cinephiles and creators alike.

The Emami Art Experimental Film Festival 2023 is made possible through the support of the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata, The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, underscoring the festival's commitment to fostering international collaborations.

Emami Art Experimental Film Festival 2023

Date: 22nd – 26th November

Venue: 4th Floor, Emami Art

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A complete guide to Tallahassee Film Fest: Sci-fi, animation and Florida on an IMAX screen

Tallahassee cinephiles can get a taste of filmmaking glamour with out the paparazzi.

Sky-high spectacle and down-to-earth artistry promise to make the 2024 Tallahassee Film Festival the most dynamic edition yet for the 16th annual celebration of independent moviemaking, which moves downtown for the Labor Day weekend event.

Programs are scheduled Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 on the five-story IMAX screen at the Challenger Learning Center, the festival’s presenting sponsor, and its planetarium, as well as at Cap City Video Lounge in Railroad Square. More than 50 films – including eight shorts programs — will be screened at three screens. Get your tickets and passes at tallahasseefilmfestival.com .

Florida focus: Discover 'wild beating heart' of festival's fans and filmmakers

To make the most of the opportunity, the festival is going big with films that will splash vividly across the giant screen.

Opening with animation

Highlights include Saturday morning opener “Boys Go to Jupiter,” a boldly colorful sci-fi fable from visionary animator and rising star Julian Glander. The New York Times raved about its premiere at the Tribeca Festival: “Following a cast of slackers and crackpots in suburban Florida, the video game-like musical comedy marries gummy 3-D graphics and stoned-guy humor with sly commentary on hustle culture and the gig economy.”

Bookending the fest is more animation, as it closes Sunday night with a double-bill from singular artist Don Hertzfeldt, presenting his latest short “Me” with a revival of the 2012 “It’s a Beautiful Day.”

40th anniversary centerpiece

There’s lots more in between, including the festival centerpiece, the 40th anniversary re-release of “Paris, Texas,” at 1:25 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 1. Wim Wenders’ 1984 classic, starring Hollywood legend Harry Dean Stanton as a lost soul on a quest to reunite with his wife (Natassja Kinski) and son, is marked by Robby Muller’s stunning cinematography and an unforgettable Ry Cooder score.

Likewise eye-popping is “Grasshopper Republic,” which combines intense macro photography and striking sound design for an immersive dive into the grasshopper industry of Uganda, where the insect is a delicacy – harvested in apocalyptic droves.

North Florida in focus

Tallahassee filmmakers shine in two special shorts programs. “Florida Gone Wild” explores the natural world at our doorsteps, with Ian Edward Weir’s “Tigers of the Sky,” a beautiful documentation of a pair of Great Horned Owls and their offspring at the St. Mark’s Wildlife Refuge, and Sammy Tedder’s “River Obscura,” the beloved local musician’s tribute to a tributary, the Sopchoppy River.

Homegrown shorts also are featured in “The 850,” which glimpses at the city and its characters through multiple perspectives. Spencer Hopkins’ ‘Life Inside the Seed’ blends Big Bend geography with slice-of-life scenes and wonderfully surreal moments.

The charged legacy of racism in an infamous onetime “sundown” town is the subject of “Welcome to Jay,” a world premiere from Jeffrey Morgan that explores the 2010 killing of a young Black man in the West Florida town. The Ku Klux Klan goes on trial in “How to Sue the Klan,” which chronicles a historic 1982 lawsuit brought by the “Chattanooga 5,” a group of Black women assaulted by members of the white supremacist organization, produced by Tallahassee superstar lawyer Ben Crump.

And for something completely different, there’s “Welcome Space Brothers,” the new documentary from Jodi Wille, a newly Tallahassee-based filmmaker who explores the far-flung worlds of the Unarius Academy of Science, a Southern California cult that channeled alien intelligence and had a pioneering role in public access television with its cosmic film productions.

Indie discoveries

As always, the festival showcases fresh new work from a wide array of rising talents, as well as films lauded on the international festival circuit.

There are selections from Rotterdam (a pair of gripping, poetic nonfiction portraits “A Man Imagined,” from Canada, and “Flathead,” from Australia), Slamdance (the fictional self-portrait of a New York sex worker in flux “Sam’s World”), Tribeca (“Mountains,” a moving family drama set in Miami’s Little Haiti), and Wilmington, N.C.’s Cucalorus (“Rats!” a boisterous, gag-a-minute stoner comedy), among others.

In addition to its two local programs, the festival boasts six more blocks of short films, with comedies, experimental work, documentary, drama, complicated sagas of love, and LGBTQIA-themed stories.

Special events

In keeping with tradition, the festival once again will host its VIP/Filmmaker Brunch on Sunday, Sept. 1, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Challenger Learning Center, where patrons and attending filmmakers get the chance to eat, drink and converse ahead of the afternoon’s screening of “Paris, Texas.”

Some of them may have been up late the night before at the fest’s Saturday night karaoke party, to be held this year at Barrel Proof Lounge Midtown and upstairs at the Over Hang Bar.

How to get tickets

Passes ($95 VIP, $50 all-access) are available online at tallahasseefilmfestival.com , and can be picked up from 10:45 a.m. Saturday Aug. 31 at Challenger Learning Center, 200 S. Duval St. Individual tickets are $10, and can be purchased at each screening. See a schedule of all the films at tallahasseefilmfestival.com .

What: Tallahassee Film Festival

When : Various times, Saturday, Aug. 31-Sunday, Sept. 1

Where : IMAX Theatre at Challenger Learning Center, 200 S. Duval St.

Tickets: Individual tickets $10; passes ($95 VIP, $50 all-access) are available online at tallahasseefilmfestival.com

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Emami Art Experimental Film Festival

The Emami Art Experimental Film Festival (EAEFF), returns as a five-day event from 22nd – 26th November 2023, following the debut edition’s success last year. EAEFF is conceived by Ushmita Sahu, Director and head Curator of Emami Art. This year, the scope of the Festival has grown to encompass twenty-two films in the competitive section + thirty-three Indian and international films across seven curated sections + Masterclasses, Filmmaker in Focus, Panel Discussions, Special screenings and more. Independent film curator and writer Raju Roychowdhury is the EAEFF 23 Festival Director.

'The second edition of the Emami Art Experimental Festival comes with an astonishing number of films, curated programs and masterclasses. The festival started focusing mainly on filmmakers from the East and Northeastern regions, but this year, it has expanded to the All-India level, receiving almost 300 experimental and independent films from all over the country. Although the festival started as a venture to create a platform for emerging video artists and filmmakers from the eastern region, with the overwhelming response and participation by the students, academicians, cinephiles, and artists, we expanded the second edition of the festival to all India levels. Apart from the films in competition selected through the open call, the festival holds many curated programs by Indian and Internationally renowned artists and filmmakers. I believe it is essential to have interdisciplinary dialogues between art forms in a contemporary art space. I congratulate all the award winners and makers of the films in the official competition,' Richa Agarwal, CEO, Emami Art.

'Emami Art Experimental Film Festival is envisioned as a discursive space for understanding moving images as an art form. In a country where films are integral to culture and society, there is a lacuna of platforms that recognise and support experimental, alternative, independent films that defy categorisation. The experiences of this part of the world and its various visual representations need serious recognition and appreciation. As a curator, I firmly believe that it is vital to have interdisciplinary dialogues for expanding any form of artistic practice and to have exposure to the contemporary experimental practices happening in our time. Apart from the films selected through an all-India open Call, the five-day festival includes a lot of carefully curated films, for instance, experimental films from East and Northeast India and South East Asia, along with alternative cinema from Canada, Germany, Argentina and more. The program also includes forums for deeper engagements through discussions and masterclasses by renowned figures in experimental filmmaking and moving image art. I thank the jurors, Solomon Nagler, Ashish Avikunthak and Raju Roychowdhury, for their valuable advice and effort in selecting the filmmakers from an overwhelming number of applications,' Ushmita Sahu, Director and Head Curator of Emami Art. The EAEFF 23 All India Open Call received more than three hundred entries from across the length and breadth of the country. Twenty-two outstanding entries have been selected in the competitive section by a jury of Indian filmmaker Ashish Avikunthak, Canadian experiential filmmaker and Professor of Film Production at NSCAD University Solomon Nagler and EAEFF 23 Festival Director Raju Roychowdhury. Additionally, the jury has selected two films, HYPNAGOGIA (2023), by Tushar Nongthombam from Imphal, Manipur, in the short to mid duration Category along with I Wonder If Daylights Were White Nights or Something Childish But Very Natural (2022) by Sibi Sekar from Chennai, Tamil Nadu in the long duration category for two awards of excellence.

The films selected by the jury for the competitive section (in alphabetical order) are:

Ankai-Tankai (2022) by Mansingh Chandravanshi; Baauji (2023) by Vikram Singh; Bela (2021) by Prantik Basu; Dustbin of a Middle-Class Family (2021) and  Dustbin of a Politician (2022) by Parashar Naik; Flesh in Flux (2021) by Prerit Jain; Locust Review Presents: TWENTY-ONE HEADLINES (2022) by Anupam Roy and Sudip Chakraborty; Marks of Wound Marks of Woe (2022) by Koushik Mitra; Memoirs (2021) by Debjit Bagchi; Memories of a City (2023) by Sarvesh Singh Hada; Museum of Memories (2022) by Navneet Mishra; My Courtyard (2021) by Shrutiman Deori; No Superhero (2023) by Stuti Bansal; Normalization of a Disaster (2020) by Devadeep Gupta; Nott – The Earthen Pot (2023) by M.K. Raina;  Of Other Spaces (2021) by Sibi Sekar; On How the Art Flows (2023) by Pralay Mistri; Slow Wave (2023) by Pooja Kadam; The Frog is the Pond’s Witness (2022) by Anuj Malhotra; WordCount (2023) by Srotoswini Sinha.

Curated Session The Festival will screen thirty-three Indian and international films across seven curated sessions by filmmakers of international renown. The curators include - artist and filmmaker Riar Rizaldi from Indonesia, who works predominantly with the medium of moving images and sound, both in the black box of cinema settings and in spatial presentation as installation. Rizaldi brings a selection of films from Southeast Asia, focusing on Indonesia, that investigate, interpret, and create myths, either directly or indirectly, with various approaches. Harkat is an international boutique arts studio passionate about films, new media, community spaces, and contemporary art. Based in Mumbai & Berlin, filmmakers Simran Ankolkar, Namrata Sanghani, and Karan Talwar will bring a lecture screening, presenting short films from the lab and speaking about the context of the works and the lab itself. Canadian experiential filmmaker and Professor of Film Production at NSCAD University, co-founder of WNDX: Festival of the Moving Image in Winnipeg Solomon Nagler, curates an anthology of Canadian experimental films including emerging, mid-career and established filmmakers titled Landscape, Home and Abstraction in Canadian Experimental Film. 

Gusztáv Hámos and Katja Pratschke are media artists and artistic researchers whose artistic practice includes video, film, photography, interactive and site-specific installations, walk-in 360° cinema spaces, as well as the curation of exhibitions, symposia, film series, workshops, and publications. Their curation titled Time Travel Images/ Photofilms purports to look at photofilms and how they reference the past in the “cinema’s present” and thus permits us to think (about) all further time dimensions.

Under the EA Locus in Focus banner, which offers discursive spaces to local and regional communities through ongoing short and long-term projects, the festival brings a selection curated by a Guwahati-based filmmaker and video artist Mehdi Jahan of experimental films crafted by young multidisciplinary artists from East and Northeast India to contemplate the intimate relationship between their immediate socio-political reality and collective memory. 

Filmmaker Focus German artist/filmmaker Wolfgang Lehmann is the EAEFF 23 Filmmaker in Focus. He will present a selection of films and two masterclasses. Working with the materiality of the image in film or video is an artistic strategy that uses the image as a central part of the visual design. Lehmann intends to take the audience on a subjective journey through the possibilities of working with film and video as material in the artistic film and video history concerning his work. Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata supports this section of the festival.

Special Screening, Masterclass and More A special screening of Argentinian experimental filmmaker and musician Claudio Caldini’s 2022 short film Promesa will be on view throughout as a tribute to the master filmmaker. The Festival also includes Masterclasses by Indian filmmaker Ashish Avikunthak, Switzerland-based contemporary artist, researcher, and writer Budhaditya Chattopadhyay and German artist/filmmaker Wolfgang Lehmann, who is also the filmmaker in focus for EAEFF 23. The Festival also includes several Panel Discussions and conversations. Emami Art Experimental Film Festival (EAEFF) Dates: 22nd – 26th November, 2023  Venue: 4th Floor, Emami Art 

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Emami Art invites submission of outside the box films from East and North-East India Apply until - 12th September 2022

OPEN CALL EMAMI ART EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL 2022

Emami art invites submission of outside the box films from east and north-east india, apply until - 12th september 2022 onsite.

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