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Andar Baahar

The curatorial

Imagine a woman sleeping in the grass – comfortable, at leisure, not stared at – a dream. Covers of shade, a bench amidst concrete and (a semblance of) safety, sometimes make public spaces feel inclusive. They feel like yours, to take up and look at. But in a social climate where unspoken hostilities become public norms, several communities aren’t free to occupy space in the same way. Design, proportion, gender, patriarchy, caste, and class are all things to look at, to measure, to discern. ‘Andar Baahar’ is programmed by Harkat Studios. Through a curated selection of films to be screened in public spaces, filmic installations, an analog “expanded cinema” performance and workshops, Harkat intends to loiter through audio-visual mediums and to activate and claim the spaces we occupy.

Curated by Harkat Studios
Lead Curator: Simran Ankolkar
Curatorial team: Oishee Nandy, Simar Gill, Sheba Alexander, Karan Talwar
Venue: Old GMC Complex, Excise Building and other festival venues across Panjim


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FILM SCREENINGS & PERFORMANCES

Mahanagar (The Big City), set in mid-1950s Calcutta, follows the personal triumphs and frustrations of Arati, who decides, despite the initial protests of her bank-clerk husband, to take a job to help support their family.

Where

ESG Gallery

`Madhu | Tanmay Choudhary, Tanvi Choudhary
Childhood friends Satakshi and Madhyama reunite at a celebration during Durga Puja. As the night progresses, their feelings for one another are revealed to us through words of the past and the future, taking the audience on a beautiful Ferris wheel ride of love, hopes, and dreams.

Counterfeit Kunkoo | Reema Sengupta
In a city that houses millions, Smita finds herself fighting beasts of a different kind as she discovers a strange pre-requisite to renting a house in middle-class Mumbai. She would make an ideal tenant - except for one glaring flaw.

Ladies Special | Nidhi Tuli
This film was directed by Nidhi Tulli and is based on the ladies' special compartment on the Mumbai local train. Tulli largely studies this space for women and the conversations that make rides even more interesting. The film opens our eyes to the different lives women lead away from home and office.

Mera Apna Sheher | Sameera Jain
The film explores how women access and experience the urban landscape in the city of Delhi.

Where

ESG Gallery, Old GMC

A female taxi driver ferries 10 different passengers around Tehran, Iran -- exposing herself to a wide swathe of the city's populace and shedding light on the plight of women in the country. Among those who set foot inside her cab are a prostitute and an elderly woman on her way to prayer.

Where

ESG Gallery, Old GMC, Goa

Andar Bahar | Gia Singh Arora
A drag artist explores the comfort of getting ready and performing on a stage versus being on the public streets of Mumbai in Drag.

Dawn | Nikolai Brokolovsky
Following a night out, a young woman takes her usual walk home.

Is it too much to ask? | Leena Manimekalai
Is it too much to ask? follows the journey of two friends Smile and Glady - looking for a rental apartment in Chennai and the obstacles and social stigma they encounter in not just looking for a home but being single and the fact that they are transgender women.

Zara Nazar Utha ke Dekho | Anindya Shankar Das
This documentary juxtaposes personal narratives of cruising from the LGBTQ community, against diverse visuals of Indian public spaces, revealing different facets and complexities of urban cruising.

Where

Panjim Market, Goa

In this live documentary-performance hybrid, Courtney Stephens investigates the history of women as travel filmmakers from the 1920s through the 1950s. Drawing entirely on archival materials, Stephens scrutinizes the traces left by these women with a movie camera, asking questions about gender and genre: what common subjects drew their eye? What social roles did they challenge, reproduce, or inhabit? What do these films say about the place of women in the economies of cinema and colonialism?

Where

ESG Gallery, Goa

SAF 16mm contact printing workshop film
Made by participants of the 16mm contact printing workshop on Dec 17, facilitated by Richard and Diana Tuohy from nano lab, Australia, this film is a physical archive of our surroundings. Participants spent time collecting fragments of public spaces – leaves, wrappers, tickets, grass, flowers etc that were later impressioned onto 16mm film through a direct contact printing process.

Deconstruction from venus | Geronimo Tanoira
A lost girl wandering around the city of Buenos Aires asks herself about the strange reasons that led humanity to live in squared spaces while we discover she's actually not human and that her out-of-the-box thinking comes from another planet.

Sultana's Dream | Isabel Herguera
Inés, a Spanish animation director, comes across Sultana’s Dream, a science fiction tale written by a Bengali writer, Rokeya Hossain in 1905. It depicts Ladyland, a utopia where women are scientists, in control of engineering, and rule the country while men live in seclusion and take care of the domestic chores. This is a 12 minute preview of a feature length film that is still under the works, and will be completed in 2023.

Commission | Ieva Balode
The story of a film Commission starts in Georgia at some unknown point of time where a heroic, mythical female character has written a book which is being delivered by a courier to three powerful women. Being used as a secret shell or a reference to female power from the past, the freshly embedded content of a book serves as a manifesto to the women who haven’t been equally appreciated due to history books still being written from male perspective.

A WOMAN ON THE INTERNET (OR, THE ETERNAL SCREAM) | Jamie Janković
A Woman on the Internet (or, The Eternal Scream) is a filmic response to Lynn Hershman Leeson’s text, Romancing the Anti-body (1995), exploring the jarring juxtapositions of friction, toxicity, joy and liberation that trans people, queers and femmes experience when playing as their own custom character creations in video game spaces.

Where

ESG Gallery, Goa

Kumi lives a hippie-like life in Tokyo’s outskirts. One night while being drunk she stumbles into an abandoned industrial site, as before, except the deserted factories also are full of forests and greenery. She decides to move there, even further away from the civilization she had already left.

Where

ESG Gallery, Old GMC, Goa

Alone Together (The Social Life of Benches) | Esther Johnson
The film looks at how individuals and groups use public and liminal spaces. Drawing on a series of oral testimonies and composed portraits, we wanted to illuminate the thoughts and memories of frequent users of two distinctive public London locations. Revolving around the micro-space of the humble bench, the film incorporates contributions from a diverse range of visitors.

Sudesha | Deepa Dhanraj, Yugantar Film Collective
In the foothills of the Himalayas, one woman organizes the women of her village to save the forests, part of the groundbreaking “Chipko” movement of peasant women in India who recognized and fought against the economic consequences of deforestation.
Yugantar Film Collective was an Indian all-female feminist film collective, creating films between 1980 and 1983.

Where

ESG Gallery, Goa

Q2P is a contemplative and often humorous study of how gender and class inequalities are revealed through public provision of toilets. Set in Mumbai, India, where women going to the loo alone is stigmatized, the film looks at who has to queue to pee and how urban design becomes gendered by this social prohibition.

Where

ESG Gallery, Old GMC, Goa

The Shadow of Cairo | Tara Shehata
An empowering story of one girl adopting a superhero identity so that she can fight back against street harassment.

Bangla Surf Girls | Elizabeth D. Costa
Never have the stakes and the waves been so high. Bangla Surf Girls is an immersive documentary that takes us into the heart of Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, where young girls join a local surf club and dare to dream of freedom.

Where

ESG Gallery, Goa

On Christmas Eve, transgender sex worker Sin-Dee Rella meets her friend and fellow transgender sex worker Alexandra at Donut Time. Once informed that her boyfriend and pimp, Chester, has been cheating on her with a white cisgender woman, Sin-Dee storms out to search the neighborhood.

Where

Art Park, Goa

Watermelon, Fish and Half Ghost | Payal Kapadia
A fable about life in a chawl where superstitions, relationships and crisis combine the families into a unified community.

If You Dare Desire | Payal Majumder
In a small village of West Bengal, Swapna and Shucheta, two young women who love each other, kill themselves. They leave a letter claiming love, life and recognition.

Where

ESG Gallery, Goa

An analog ‘expanded cinema’ film performance

Women projectionists open windows to their lived experiences in public spaces. The performance involves multiple 16mm film projections along with other audio-visual interventions, all interacting with each other to form a larger picture. Clothes become screens and screens become clothes as we reflect on how women see and what we experience. The performance is an attempt to take up space, to claim an act that is conventionally male dominated, and to manifest our dreams.

Where

Art Park, Goa

A woman decides to fight against her powerful oppressor. When the guard of a chilli factory helps her, the women and the teacher of the village join them to openly defy the prevailing repression.

Where

ESG Gallery, Goa

An analog ‘expanded cinema’ film performance

Women projectionists open windows to their lived experiences in public spaces. The performance involves multiple 16mm film projections along with other audio-visual interventions, all interacting with each other to form a larger picture. Clothes become screens and screens become clothes as we reflect on how women see and what we experience. The performance is an attempt to take up space, to claim an act that is conventionally male dominated, and to manifest our dreams.

Where

Panjim Market, Goa

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