13th September 2012, 18.30 Hrs
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About the Speaker
Krishnendu Bose
KRISHNENDU BOSE, set up Earthcare Films, making wildlife
and conservation films after acquiring a Masters degree in Economics from Delhi
School of Economics (1985).
Harvesting Hunger – a film on the politics of food in
India won the Special Jury Award at Okomedia Environment Film Festival in
Freiberg, Germany in 2000 and awarded at the EarthVision Environment Film
Festival in Tokyo 2001. His last film is on the tiger crisis- Tiger- the death chronicles got the
coveted Wildlife Conservation Award at the 4th Vatavaran Film
Festival 2007, Delhi and Conservation Award at the International Wildlife Film
Festival at Missoula, Montana in 2008. The
Latent City, his film in 2009 was showcased at the Indian Panorama, at the
International Film Festival of India 2009 and was awarded the Grand Prix, for
the best film, in Dokument Art Film Festival, Romania. He was also awarded the highest award for
documentary filmmaking in the field of Environment and Wildlife in India-
CMS-UNEP Prithvi Ratna Award in 2009. Krishnendu has produced the first
wildlife series for children in India in 2011.
Along with producing films, he has been instrumental in
setting up a non profit trust called ECO (Earthcare Outreach Trust) which uses
Participatory Video to help young adults and children make visual narratives
about themselves and the world around them. He is also involved in conducting sessions
on environment education in schools and colleges, using his films as a medium. He
is a guest faculty in top communications schools in India like Symbiosis and
National School of Design.
For more info : http://www.earthcarefilms.com/
Screening of
The Latent City
Delhi. This city is old:
2,500 years old. The city as a palimpsest, layers of accumulated history and
memory. The city transforms. The water turns black. The trees turn yellow. The
city turns a foggy green. And the poor turn to dust. Dialectics. The city is
transforming to become more efficient and modern. A thought emerges. Selected
artists from all the world over and India are invited to this city. In its
transformative moment. To create art, in the everyday. Eight politically
charged spaces are identified to be excavated and transformed by the artists.
In heat climbing to 48 degrees Celsius, a reminder of our warming cities. The
first public art ecology project in India is shaped, during ten days in
December 2008. Cameras whirr and a film re-constructs the art. An attempt is
made to record and transcend the imagery. Using snatches of artist
conversation, splicing their politics and performance, a video re-presentation
is sliced in between the chronicle of the disappearing city. Scattered written
words unlock the larger narrative of the city and create a debate around the
disabling of publics and public spaces. A film re-surfaces, nudges us to
re-examine the latent citizenry. Urges to re-imagine the future of our cities,
through the "eye glass" of public art.
