[Sarai Newsletter] March- 2009

[The Sarai Programme]

*Newsletter - March 2009

[[CONTENTS]]
Announcement
Sarai Reader 01: The Public Domain now available*
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*Film at Sarai
Bad Boy Bubby
A film by Rolf de Heer
Curated by Safina Uberoi*
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We are happy to announce the availability of *SARAI READER 01: THE 
PUBLIC DOMAIN *from our online bookseller.  Long out of print, *Scholars 
without Borders* has reproduced a special edition in response to popular 
demand. *SARAI READER 02: THE CITIES OF EVERYDAY LIFE* is also in line 
for a reprint edition.

Our film screening this month is Bad Boy Bubby (Director Rolf de Heer) 
which will be curated by Safina Uberoi. The film depicts the protagonist 
as the sufferer of a variety of social deviances like bad parenting and 
sexual abuse, but one who comes out trumps by his sole determination to 
live life beyond such oddities. This film is one of the many original 
nonconformist films from Australia which examines social issues critically.


Best,
Mitoo Das
Programme Coordinator
Sarai, CSDS
Email me at: mitoo at sarai.net

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*Announcement*
*SARAI READER 01: THE PUBLIC DOMAIN*, can now be bought online from 
*Scholars Without Borders*, who has also reprinted it.
To *read more about it* visit
http://swblogs.blogspot.com/2009/02/ipod-back-in-public-domain.html
To visit their *website* click
http://www.scholarswithoutborders.in/
To *order* visit
http://www.scholarswithoutborders.in/item_show.php?code_no=MED033&ID=undefined&calcStr=

*SARAI READER 01: THE PUBLIC DOMAIN*
Produced and Designed at the Sarai Media Lab

*Editoral:*
Coordinator: Raqs Media Collective (for Sarai) + Geert Lovink (for SONM)
Additional Input: Ravikant, Awadhendra Sharan

*Design:*
Design: Pradip Saha
Design Co-ordinator: Monica Narula
Assisted by: Mrityunjoy chatterjee, Ruchika Agarwal
Graphics: Pradip Saha
Marginalia: Monica Narula
Additional Photography: Pradip Saha

*Production:*
Co-ordinator: Raqs Media Collective
(Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta)
Assisted by: Ashish Mahajan
Copy Editing: Ravikant, Awadhendra Sharan, Rana Dasgupta, Saumya Gupta
Printing Co-ordinator- Pradip Saha

*Published by*
Sarai: the New Media Initiative
A programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
29- Rajpur Road, Delhi 110 054, India
+
The Society for Old and New Media (SONM)
De Waag, Nieuwmarkt 4
1012 CR Amsterdam, Netherlands

Delhi/Amsterdam 2001

ISBN Number: 9789066172869

Price: *INR 350, US$ 20, EUR 20*
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*Film at Sarai
Bad Boy Bubby
Directed by Rolf de Heer
Cast Claire Benito, Ralph Cotterill, Nicholas Hope, Rachael Huddy, 
Carmel Johnson, Norman Kaye, Celine O'Leary etc.
Length: 114 mins
Language: English
Curated by Safina Uberoi
Date: 27th March, 2009
Time: 4:30 pm
Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS*

This Australian cult film draws extremely dark humor from the story of 
Bubby, a man who has spent the first 35 years of his life locked in a 
disgusting basement by his abusive, controlling mother. Having been 
taught that the outside air is poisonous and that leaving home is 
sinful, he only realizes the truth when his long-absent father returns 
to disrupt the already twisted family unit. A tragic confrontation 
follows, forcing Bubby into the real world. Knowing nothing about life, 
and undoubtedly suffering from mental disturbance, he stumbles about the 
city, speaking in a rambling monologue made up mainly of overheard 
phrases. His behavior is interpreted in different ways by the people he 
encounters: some think him insane, while others equate his strange 
speech and erratic behavior with brilliance. The edgy lead performance 
by Nicholas Hope is key to the film's success, managing to make Bubby a 
figure that is both sympathetic and at times quite frightening.


Bad Boy Bubby will be curated by Safina Uberoi, a well known Indian 
filmmaker based in Australia. Safina Uberoi trained at the Mass 
Communication Research Center in Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi. In 
1995 she left India to study in the Australian Film Television and Radio 
School. Her short films made there include the award winning Nonno Peppe 
is a Video Head and Guru. She has taught in Australia at the Macquarie 
University, the Australian Film TV and Radio school, the Sydney 
International Film School, the National Institute of Dramatic Art.  In 
india, she has taught at The National School of Drama and given lectures 
at MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia. Internationally, she has screened her 
films and conducted master classes at a number of Universities including 
New York University, De Paul University in Chicago, University of Los 
Angeles, University of Westminster and the London School of Economics.
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