PROGRAMME: BERLIN CHAPTER
11 to 14 August, House of World Cultures
THURSDAY, 11.08.2005
6.00 pm Opening Exhibition
“Scattered Wholes and Chosen Bits” by Sun-ju
Choi, curator, Berlin and Anke Illing, photographer, Berlin
8.00 pm Welcome note by an EU representative
and Book Release “Import Export – Cultural transfer between India and Germany, Austria” Presentation, Discussion and
Talk with authors and editors
Film Programme:
10.00 pm “Star Biz”
by Merle Kröger and Dorothee Wenner, Germany 2005, 80 min
FRIDAY, 12.08.2005
10.00 am – 2.00 pm Symposium
- “Limits of Authenticity: Hindutva’s European entanglements”
Speaker: Sumit Sarkar, Professor of History, Delhi
Respondent: Erhard Haubold, journalist, Berlin
- “Multimedia
lecture: An outsider’s inside view or an insider’s outside
view – changing media perceptions of India 1957-2005”
Speaker: Navina Sundaram, TV correspondent, journalist and filmmaker,
Delhi/Hamburg
Respondent: Harun Farocki, filmmaker, Berlin
3.00 pm – 6.00 pm Panel Discussion
“The virtual second generation”
excerpts from a research project, talk with founders of “theinder.net”;
Participants: Urmila Goel, Mareile Paske, Navina Khatib and Thomas
Steller from Viadrina; Bijon Chatterji, founder and chief editor
of theinder.net, Amit Dasgupta, Indian Embassy, Berlin
Film Programme:
8.00 pm “The Eschnapur Heritage”
film lecture by Meenakshi Shedde, Bombay and Vinzenz Hediger, Berlin
10.00 pm Late Night
Party in collaboration with Club Deewane, Berlin (tbc)
SATURDAY, 13.08.2005
11.00 am – 6.00 pm Symposium
- “Message in a Dabba: How India wards off the threat of globalization”
Speaker: Vinay Choudary, cultural observer, conspiracy theorist
and screenwriter
Respondent: Mark Siemons, journalist FAZ, Berlin (tbc)
- “Star Biz – Multimedia
Presentation of a documentary journey through globalized times”
Speakers: Merle Kröger and Dorothee Wenner, Berlin
Respondent: Vinzenz Hediger, film scientist, Ruhr-University, Bochum
- “Civil Society and Development
Aid: The Politics of Responsible Engagement”
Speaker: Shobha Raghuram, director of the India Regional Office
of the Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries,
Bangalore
Respondent: Susanne Schultz, political scientist, Berlin
Film Programme
7.00 pm “Wanted! A Patriot”
by Navina Sundaram, Germany 1971, English subtitles, 44 min
and “From Here to Here”
by Madhusree Dutta and Philip Scheffner, India / Germany 2005, Video,
45 min
Discussion with the filmmakers
10.00 pm “Nayakan / The Hero”
by Mani Ratnam, India 1987, 35mm, Hindi / Tamil with English subtitles,
155 min
SUNDAY, 14.08.2005
4.00 pm Panel Discussion
“Cross Cultural Networking: Import Export”;
Participants: Madhusree Dutta, Bombay; Angelika Fitz, Vienna; Merle
Kröger and Dorothee Wenner, Berlin a.o.
Film Programme:
2.00 pm “Prem Sanyas / Die Leuchte Asiens”
by Franz Osten and Himansu Rai, India/Germany 1925, 35 mm, silent,
b&w, English intertitles, 96 min
6.00 pm “The Animal Next to us”
by Michael Wörgötter, India/Europe 2005, 70 min
Discussion with the filmmaker
8.00 pm “Purab
aur Pachhim / East and West”
by Manoj Kumar, India 1970, b/w + col, original format: 35mm (due
to non-existence of a subtitled filmprint, this film will be shown
as english subtitled DVD), 187 min
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