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Remembering Manjira Datta (1949-2019)
Read about the filmmaker, artist, friend and sister from her family and friends here
Watch four documentaries in this retrospective!
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THE SACRIFICE OF BABULAL BHUIYA (63 min., Hindi with English subtitles, 1988)
Director & Producer: Manjira Datta Camera: Ranjan Palit | Sound: Omesh Matta, Suresh Raajamani | Editor: Reena Mohan
The Mailagora coalfields: a community of workers recycle coal slurry. Their comrade, a casual worker named Babulal Bhuiya was killed by Industrial Security Guards (CISF) in 1981. Protests followed and denunciations of harassment from guards, police and landowners. The workers share their living conditions and remember their comrade's "sacrifice."
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PORTRAITS FROM A DREAM SHOW (52 min., Hindi with English subtitles, 1991)
Director & Producer: Manjira Datta
Co-Producer: Nick Hart-Williams | Camera: Ranjan Palit, Jugal K. Debata
Sound: Ashwyn Balsaver, Jagdish | Editor: Sameera Jain
An intimate encounter with a wandering community of artists & performers under the big top of the Great Rayman Circus. Affect, courage and drama beneath the makeup & the glitter, the thrills & the spills.
PORTRAITS FROM A DREAM SHOW (52 min., Hindi with English subtitles, 1991)
Director & Producer: Manjira Datta
Co-Producer: Nick Hart-Williams | Camera: Ranjan Palit, Jugal K. Debata
Sound: Ashwyn Balsaver, Jagdish | Editor: Sameera Jain
An intimate encounter with a wandering community of artists & performers under the big top of the Great Rayman Circus. Affect, courage and drama beneath the makeup & the glitter, the thrills & the spills.
Watch Film here
SEEDS OF PLENTY, SEEDS OF SORROW (52 min., Hindi with English subtitles, 1992)
Director: Manjira Datta
SEEDS OF PLENTY, SEEDS OF SORROW (52 min., Hindi with English subtitles, 1992)
Director: Manjira Datta
Producer: Sanjay Seth, for BBC Television | Camera: Jugal K. Debata, John Beck
Sound: Dileep Subramaniam, Doug Mawson | Editor: Graham Whitlock
The much mythologised Green Revolution led India and other developing nations away from famine and hunger. But 25 years later, who benefits from the biotech package? Peasant? Big farmer? Multinational corporation? And what damage has been done to the social ecologies of the Global South? A darker side to the ‘miracle’.
The much mythologised Green Revolution led India and other developing nations away from famine and hunger. But 25 years later, who benefits from the biotech package? Peasant? Big farmer? Multinational corporation? And what damage has been done to the social ecologies of the Global South? A darker side to the ‘miracle’.
Watch Film here
BKS IYENGAR - SCULPTING HUMANKIND (30 min., English, 1999)
Director: Manjira Datta | Producer: Geeta lyengar and Mandira Dutta
Camera (India): Sachin Patil | Sound: Dennis P. White | Editor: Sudhin Chatterjee
The film traces the evolution of The BKS Iyengar System of Yoga. Iyengar arrives at the basic tenet of alignment, where the 'vertical ascendancy and horizontal expansion of intelligence meet exactly at the seat of the heart." In this is embedded the principles of therapy with which he healed several patients.
BKS IYENGAR - SCULPTING HUMANKIND (30 min., English, 1999)
Director: Manjira Datta | Producer: Geeta lyengar and Mandira Dutta
Camera (India): Sachin Patil | Sound: Dennis P. White | Editor: Sudhin Chatterjee
The film traces the evolution of The BKS Iyengar System of Yoga. Iyengar arrives at the basic tenet of alignment, where the 'vertical ascendancy and horizontal expansion of intelligence meet exactly at the seat of the heart." In this is embedded the principles of therapy with which he healed several patients.
Watch Film here
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