[Reader-list] Hill Hoppers Festival of Northeast Films- No. 3 - sunday 26th dec, colaba, Mumbai

[rohitrellan at aol.in]

Hill Hoppers screening No.3 in Colaba

Time : Sunday, December 26 · 11:00am - 10:00pm


Location :  Clark House, Ram Bahadur Thakur & Co., Ground Floor, Right 
Wing, 8, Wodehouse Road, (diagonally opposite Regal Cinema)


More Info   list of films and presentations

ranjan palit-    forever young  (75min) 

blackrice
art presentation-   atamata  (20min)

vasudha joshi-   songlines (45min)  

yirmiyan arthur-    phalee   (33min)    

naga headhunters-   naga jedi (3min)    

meren imchen-   aok & aie (4min)

longbir ingti-   loop (2min)

akanito assumi- foozball (3min) 

chewang lepcha- pding pdong (3min)  


BREAK   30min

kavita joshi-    tales from the margins(23min)  

merajur rehman baruah-  the nine months (77min) 

radhamohini prasad- machis ko sinka (11min)

merren imchen-   nokpokliba (9min)

imsophangla ao-  inside the bamboo kitchen(58min)

ajesh shah- presentation of photography from the northeast
(20min)

aditi chitre-    journey to nagaland (26min)

sunzu bachaspatimayum- shingnaba(27min)
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About Black b l a c k r i c e : is a platform for projects that 
encourage collaborative art practice, addressing memories of burning 
fields, and the beauty of the hills, of the many north easts that live 
in north eastern India

blackrice began with a series of conversations and interviews in the 
naga hills made by different people at different times in the last few 
years to understand the context for what seemed to be unconstitutional 
methods of violence employed by the state.

testimonies beginning from the 50s tell of how when the indian army 
suspected any village of sheltering rebels, the army would go from 
village to village and burn down fields, rice granaries and the 
surrounding forests, either to smoke people out, or as punishment.

this was also the time when they were 'grouping' all the villagers into 
concentration camps. people of 4-5 villages would be clubbed into one 
camp where they were interrogated, isolated, punished, and held 
captive.

a couple of us made a friend there who told us about her invalid mother 
who now lives in calcutta. her mother was in one such camp. here she 
had to carry her young brother on her back for several days because 
there were too many people and not enough place. this bent her back 
permanently. when she was free she went to calcutta for treatment. but 
her back was never cured.

those who managed to escape the grouping were basically hiding in 
forests. they could not light fires in the forests because the army was 
ever vigilant.

often they would try to steal back into their destroyed villages to 
forage for food. here they found the granaries were burnt down and the 
rice charred black.

this is where 'black rice' comes from.