Philadelphia area is in going through the lucky fortunes of three important cinema events. The moment is significant for both cinephiles and film scholars.

Mirra Banks begins her documentary with pristine and picturesque images of life in Manipur, that remote state near Burma that India only forgetfully remembers. In fact, it remembers the place mostly when stories of rebellion/ the separatists appear in the Press.

Spreading the word- UPenn Cinema Studies Conference!!

Philadelphia area is in going through the lucky fortunes of three important cinema events. The moment is significant for cinephiles and film scholars. Three separate and otherwise unrelated events are offering a telling lesson in reading the trajectory of transformation in cinema itself, from the gifts of its incipiency to the maps of its future.

Tacita Dean at Arcadia University Art Gallery

Arcadia hosts first ever Arusha Africa Film Festival (AAFF) at the Cultural Heritage Cinema Center on December 1st.

“Anthology of Identity: Emerging Imaginary in European Cinema,” European Cinema Research Forum (ECRF),  SUNY Binghampton, NY in June 2009.   “East European Omnibus as a Pedagogical and Methodological Strategy,”Society of Cinema Studies Conference, Los Angeles, March 2009. Respondent to the Third Biennial Cinema Conference on Cinema South Asia: Focus on Documentary, University of Pennsylvania, April 2010. “Nation in the wake of its demise: Anthology films as a response to the New Europe,” The Europeanness of European Cinema at Kings College, London, June 2010.