[Reader-list] [DFA NewsLetter] Delhi International Ethnographic Film Festival : Schedule for 30 November

[Rahul Roy]

*Delhi** International Ethnographic Film Festival
  26 -**30 November 2008*


 DIEFF screening on 29 and 30 November will take place *only* at Alliance
Francaise, Lodi Estate, New Delhi. The screenings at Delhi University and
Jamia Millia Islamia end on 28 Nov.


*DIEFF Schedule for Sunday, **30 November 2008**
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*Venue*:  Alliance Francaise, Lodi Estate, Sunday, 30 Nov

*Time*: 11:00 AM to 8:15 PM

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*Photowallahs* at 11:00 am / Alliance Francaise / Lodi Estate



*Dir: *David and Judith MacDougall / *60 min / dirs. present*



*Photo Wallahs* is a film about the varied meanings of photography.  It is
set in Mussoorie, a famous hill station in northern India, that has
attracted tourists since the 19th century.  In this setting photography has
thrived.  Without spoken commentary, the film discovers its subject in the
streets, bazaars, shops, photographic studios and private homes of
Mussoorie.  In the process it compares the diverse work and attitudes of the
local photographers-Mussoorie's "photo wallahs."  Although photography has
developed certain culturally distinctive features in India, its many forms
and uses there tell us much about the nature and significance of photography
throughout the world.



*The Lunch Box* at 12:15 /Alliance Francaise / Lodi Estate



*Dir:* Floriane Devigne / 52 min / Belgium



Show me your lunch box and I shall tell you where you come from! It is this
ordinary, functional object that is at the core of a surprising and
entertaining investigation of Belgium and its people. With humour and naive
amazement, serious research and intuition, Floriane Devigne, in her first
film, embarks on a journey to try and understand her country, brandishing
the lunch box as a link to hold together this diverse community. With a
light touch she reveals a plethora of insights in the humble receptacle:
Marxist theories, Joris Iven's *Borinage* film on Belgian miners,
French-Wallonese-Flemish differences, slag heaps and parks, malnutrition and
child poverty, immigration, linguistic and cultural boundaries. She cuddles
and destroys the box, builds statistic towers with it, drives it around and
looks deep into its etymology. And casually she also pokes fun at her own
obsession with the object. A film inside a lunch box.



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*Conversations with Jean Rouch* at 2:00 pm /  Alliance Francaise / LodiEstate



*Dir: *Ann McIntosh / 40 min / France, Italy, USA



This intimate, revealing video of conversations between Jean Rouch and a
number of filmmakers and friends, including John Marshall and Colin Young,
was shot between 1978 and 1980 by Ann McIntosh, who taught video under Ricky
Leacock at MIT. McIntosh gained Rouch's trust while shooting informal cinéma
vérité scenes of him at various locations: film seminars in New England
(USA), Chateau Thierry  in France (the WWII period for Jean), Monaco (where
his father worked and  died), Marcilly (the family homestead), Italy (at his
vacation house with  his first wife Jane), as well as to graduate seminars
at the Sorbonne and  the Cinémathèque Française. The video provides
fascinating  insights about Rouch as he discusses his methodology with
students and colleagues,  revealing the man at his most tender and most
serious. Jean 's extraordinary wisdom and sense of humor permeates
McIntosh's work.



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*L.A.P.A*. at 3:00 pm / Alliance Francaise / Lodi Estate



*Dir:* Emílio Domingos e Cavi Borges / *75 min / **Brazil*



The traditionally bohemian Lapa neighborhood (Rio de Janeiro), a place
formerly frequented by samba players, has also been a meeting point for
rappers during the 1990s.



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*Strange Homeland* at 4:30 pm / Alliance Francaise / Lodi Estate



*Dir:* Jens Schanze / 81 min /* *Germany



Otzenrath, a little 700 year old village near Cologne, is the first among 13
other villages that have been resettled due to "Garzweiler II", Europe's
largest open-cast lignite pit.
Despite the harmful effects of carbon dioxide, the exploitation of lignite
for the production of electric power will continue at least until the middle
of the 21st century. In Germany alone 25 plants to electrify coal are
planned or currently under construction. Worldwide, more than 1000 coal
plants will go into service by 2012. The 2600 inhabitants of Otzenrath
started their collective resettlement in 2000. The film documents the impact
of the gigantic industrial lignite project on the lives of people in a
country that – like any other industrialized nation – is addicted to
electric power in order to maintain the living standard of its people.



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*Confluence - Emerillon of **French Guiana** *at 6:15 pm / AllianceFrancaise /
Lodi Estate



*Dir:* Perle Mohl / 78* *min / Denmark, France





Like self-fulfilling omens, scientific reports have hitherto depicted the *
Emerillon* of French Guiana as cultureless and doomed to disappear.

With this film, a Danish anthropologist proposes to defy the negative
images, simultaneously delving into their world and giving a vivid
description of the down-to-earth, capricious and inter-subjective conditions
of anthropological fieldwork and knowledge-creation. Several
*Emerillon*take up the proposition, and through their resourceful and
often stumbling
efforts to maintain a life in the forest while profiting from their French
citizenship, they present another version of what being *Emerillon* is all
about.

We follow them through communal fishing trips, forest foraging, artistic
creativity, French schooling and municipal elections, discovering how they
face the day with humour, manage to bridge the gaps and make their lives
whole.

Thus emerges a rare, profoundly generous and non-ethnocentric discourse, one
that asserts that to feel *Emerillon* does not necessarily imply feeling
fundamentally different from others.

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