The Archive as a Site of Production
and the Future of Image Studies

Seminar, March 10 to 11, 2018

PROGRAM:

Saturday, 10 March: 3 PM - 9 PM:
Library, Goethe Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai

3:00 pm
Welcome note from Pad.ma

3:15 pm
Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson
Transductions: Revisiting 10 Theses on the Archive - a journey from ideas to images, and back.

3:45 pm
858.ma
Missing, unremembered, and newly marked sequences on 858.ma, Mosireen's archive of the Egyptian Revolution.

4:15 pm
Kaya Behkalam
Augmented Archive

4:30 pm
Inder Salim
Mother of the missing son, Dog of Tithwal, and 16th June.

5:00 pm
Alper Sen, Bak.ma
Connections

5:15 pm
Conversation Between 858.ma and Bak.ma, Discussion

6:00 pm
TEA BREAK

6:20 pm
Mariam Ghani
Overflow, Reserve, and the Unfinished in Afghan Films.

6:50 pm
Prabodh Parikh
Response, Ruins

7:00 pm
Steal Them.
Discussion on documents with Simpreet Singh, and Rosemary Grennan of Maydayrooms.org

7:30 pm
Kush Badhwar
OU 101: History lesson from the late professor's trash.

8:00 pm
Satish Poduval, Mohammed Shafeeq K and Jenson Joseph
Impostors, anti-heroes and desecrated bodies - The afterlife of Communist Cinema in Kerala.

Sunday, 11 March: 3 PM - 9 PM:
G5A Foundation for Contemporary Culture

3:00 pm
Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson
Transductions: Revisiting 10 Theses on the Archive - a journey from ideas to images, and back.

3:30 pm
CAMP
General Purpose Editing
Story of Janta Colony 1950 to 1976

4:00 pm
Sebastian Lütgert and Jan Gerber
The Neural Image: Cinema watched by Machines

4:30 pm
Kaushik Bhaumik, Madhuja Mukherjee
Dancing in the Dark: The Curious Case of Film Scholarship.

5:10 pm
BREAK

5:40 pm
Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson
Dark Matter Cinema Tarot: A Nocturnal Committee

6:10 pm
Virchand Dharamsey, Iyesha Geeth Abbas, Kaushik Bhaumik
Silent Film/Bombay City

7:00 pm
Kamal Swaroop
Crowds and Power

7:30 pm
Stefanie Schulte Strathaus
Life of an Archive: Arsenale Berlin

8:00 pm
Ananya Parikh, Mohammed Shafeeq K and Jenson Joseph
on new film teaching

8:30 pm
Closing Discussion
Archive as a Site of Production and the Future of Image Studies


This event is supported by the Foundation for Arts Initiatives (FfAI) and Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai. In association with G5A Foundation for Contemporary Culture.

Please RSVP by email events@pad.ma to attend.