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Far From the Madding Crowd | Film screening

Aug 17 2023 – 3:40pm-4:00pm

About the event

About the filmmaker: Abeer Khan, a Mumbai-based filmmaker and photographer, possesses a remarkable talent for crafting captivating visual narratives that challenge the boundaries of storytelling. Through her keen observation skills, she fearlessly explores the complexities of human behavior, spaces, and desires, giving life to thought-provoking stories.  Her work has graced prestigious venues like the National Gallery of Modern Art in Mumbai, Kulturstiftung des Bundes in Frankfurt and Berlin, while also being featured in prominent publications such as National Geographic in the USA, Sonrisas de Bombay in Spain, The Wire, Better Photography, HomeGrown, Platform, and Scroll. Her films have been selected for renowned events such as the Prithvi Theatre Vikalp screenings, Hyderabad Literature Live, Kolkata International Film festival and the Urban Lens Film Festival Bangalore and the Kochi Biennale in 2023.

About the film: Roaring towers and bellowing development has gripped Mumbai. Set in the City’s quickly depleting green patch, Aarey colony, a mad man finds shelter on a trail going uphill, under a coconut tree, he wakes up to kill time every day. After a stormy weather night, what follows is an unusual rendezvous and amusingly noteworthy conversation. The film is a visual narrative of survival and benevolence.

Date: 17th August, 2023, Thursday | Time: 3:40 PM – 4:00 PM

Registration link: https://forms.gle/EwrwqdxYnymxbY6d8

In collaboration with

IFBE

The Ice Factory at Ballard Estate (IFBE) is an experimental laboratory for transdisciplinary practices across modern and contemporary architecture, art, and pedagogy. The conserved and refashioned structure is itself a historical object; its complexity, diversity, and paradoxical forms of architecture are instruments for the invention of knowledge. Malik Architecture has created an architecture that does not settle, one with spaces to breathe through a crystallization and mutation of traditional, modern, and contemporary experiments. A century-old embodiment... of “the dreams that stuff is made of.” IFBE’s community of architects, artists, scholars, and students exists in the expanding complexity and multiplicity of the present without sacrificing a fidelity to pasts and archiving, to build and chronicle in the here and now, what Reinhard Koselleck felicitously called “futures past.”