Born to Perform

Online exhibition of photographs by Vijay S. Jodha

 

An ongoing photography project shot in India and abroad, the exhibition features portraits of some of the world’s finest and most inspiring performing artists who happen to be physically challenged. The project focuses on some of the world’s leading performing artists from Australia, Cambodia, Canada, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Malaysia, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nepal, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Thailand and U.K.

 

The online exhibition is on view from 23rd November to 6th December 2020

 

Organised to commemorate International Day of Persons with Disabilities observed on 3 December annually

http://iicdelhi.nic.in/vijay_jodha/exhibition.html

 

(Organised in partnership with UNESCO, New Delhi Office)

FRAMING ABILITIES – I (45 minutes)

A festival of disability films organized in collaboration with We Care FilmFest and Brotherhood. Ten award-winning short documentaries from Burma/Japan, Lebanon, India, Iran, Italy and Trinidad & Tabago will be screened over the next two weeks.

 

Tiny Step (India)

(1:00 min; English subtitles)

Director: Ganga Bharani

Recipient of the Best Film Award and Special Mention, We Care Film Festival 

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSGsE8P4AsU&feature=emb_logo

 

Question of Success (Mai Pakpagee Wahang/India)

(5:01 min; English and with subtitles)

Director: L. Amarendra Sharma

 

The story of Md. Abdul Haque, a national Paralympic gold medalist in swimming

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnTUo1M54gg

 

The Attitude (India)

(5:06 min; Oriya & with English subtitles)

Director: Santosh Kumar Panda

 

A job interview for Bhagwan Patra aka “Rintu”

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUNaLnyGkHY

 

The Fish and I (Iran; 6:10 min)

Director: Babak Habibifar

Multiple award winner including Young Jurors Prize, International Short Film Festival Ingolstadt, Germany 2015; Best Short Film, 6th Skepto International Film Festival, Italy 2015; Jury Grand Prize & Audience Award, Short Short Story Film Festival, USA 2014; among others

 

The film recounts the story of a blind man trying to save his fish

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1orjmtBNao

 

Turning a Page (Trinidad and Tobago)

(10:13 min; English & with subtitles)

Director: Miquel Galofre

 

The film explores how differently abled students relate to the world through creative outlets like a paper recycling project at their school

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbkNJBACbac

 

Elsewhere (Altrove/Italy)

(18:05 min; Italian with English subtitles)

Director: Cesare Cicardini

 

Recipient of the Award for Best Film, Bluenose Ability Film Festival 2015

 

A trip beyond boundaries: beyond Italy and beyond stereotypes

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSgkPaRfXGc&t=636s

Focus Japan

Screening of NHK documentary films on Japan’s history, literature, art, culture and heritage. Organised with the support of NHK World and Embassy of Japan, New Delhi 

 

Tsuruko’s Tea Journey in Germany

(50 minutes; 2020; English and with subtitles)

Hanzawa Tsuruko is a master of chaji, a tea ceremony that starts with an exquisitely prepared kaiseki meal and finishes with matcha tea served from the heart. A chaji can last for four hours and is a spiritual process, in which the participants remove themselves from the mundane world, seeking harmony and inner peace.  Tsuruko has been traveling around Japan to encounter new people and share chaji with them. In autumn 2019, at the age of 76, she set off on a tea journey across Germany. The film chronicles her month-long odyssey

 

www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/3016078/

‘In the Forest of My Soul’ – Beethoven and his Art

Concerts, films and talks to mark the 250th birth anniversary of the renowned composer, Ludwig van Beethoven

 

Conceptualised by Justin McCarthy, well known dancer, choreographer, Guru and concert pianist

 

Beethoven @250 – Concert III 

 

Beethoven and Schiller (21 min)

Piano and poetry

A series of miniature piano pieces by Beethoven played by young, non-professional musicians, and accompanied by verses from Friedrich Schiller’s poetry

 

Poets were an integral part of the arts landscape in Beethoven’s day and Schiller was one such well-known poet, whose poetry had a strong influence on the composer

 

Video recording of short recitals for IIC online programmes

 

Charade (USA)

(113 min; 1963; English)

Director: Stanley Donen

 

With Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Mathau

 

Recipient of the BAFTA Film Award for Best British Actress, BAFTA Awards 1965; Golden Plate Award for Artistic Contribution, David Di Donatello Awards 1964; and Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture, Edgar Allen Poe Awards 1964

 

Much loved classic film notable for its screenplay, especially the repartee between Grant and Hepburn. Romance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want the fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Whom can she trust?

 

https://archive.org/details/Charade19631280x696