Department of Communication, Sarojini Naidu School of Arts and Communication
presents
Screening of documentary film
Dirt (80 min) &
Interaction with filmmaker, Meghna Haldar (SN School alumnus, 1995-1997)
on Friday, March 11, 2016, 3:00 pm
School of Humanities Auditorium
Off-Campus Screening: at Lamakaan, Saturday, March 12, 2:00 pm
Dirt Synopsis
This feature documentary is an exploration of the concept of dirt and impurity. From the slums of Kolkata to Vancouver's Downtown Eastside to a barbeque joint in Central Texas, Dirt digs deep into the webs of meaning and feeling attached to that deceptively simple 4-letter word. An odyssey into all things unclean, the film features animation to make Hieronymus Bosch blush and music from Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
Meghna Haldar, an SN School alumnus (MA, 1995-1997), is an Indian-Canadian writer/filmmaker based in North Vancouver. Her feature documentary Dirt garnered three Leos in 2009 and the Best Documentary Award at the Female Eye Festival. Broadcast on DOC Channel, select presentations include the British Wellcome Museum, "Melancholy of Progress" at the Hong-gah Museum in Taiwan, NYMASA in New York, New York, and a screening at the Artisan Gallery at Kala Ghoda Arts Festival in Mumbai, India in February 2016. In 2009, Meghna presented "Dirt: A Social Mirror" at the Global Conference for Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging at University of Oxford. Featured presentations were published in "From Conflict to Belonging: Moving Multiculturalism Forward" by Rodopi/Brill in 2012.
Her collaborative triptych on violence "Bol" has screened in Ireland, Guatemala, India and Canada. From January 21st - March 2016, it will be featured as an installation at the Campbell River Art Gallery as part of a group art show "Myth of Fishes". Her previous work has screened and won awards at festivals in North America.
For the past few years, Meghna has been developing a dramatic feature as one of the first Treaty co-productions with India, and more recently a documentary on Vancouver, British Columbia based artists amongst other projects. She has been part of Canadian Trade Missions to India to promote co-productions and educational initiatives between her two countries. In her home town, Meghna coordinated the well-regarded Justice Forum for DOXA Documentary Festival, and has been a juror and mentor for several Canadian arts organizations on the local, provincial and federal level. In 2014, Meghna was nominated for the Remarkable Women series for the City of Vancouver. She joined Emily Carr University of Art and Design as a sessional faculty in 2015.
-- presents
Screening of documentary film
Dirt (80 min) &
Interaction with filmmaker, Meghna Haldar (SN School alumnus, 1995-1997)
on Friday, March 11, 2016, 3:00 pm
School of Humanities Auditorium
Off-Campus Screening: at Lamakaan, Saturday, March 12, 2:00 pm
Dirt Synopsis
This feature documentary is an exploration of the concept of dirt and impurity. From the slums of Kolkata to Vancouver's Downtown Eastside to a barbeque joint in Central Texas, Dirt digs deep into the webs of meaning and feeling attached to that deceptively simple 4-letter word. An odyssey into all things unclean, the film features animation to make Hieronymus Bosch blush and music from Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
Meghna Haldar, an SN School alumnus (MA, 1995-1997), is an Indian-Canadian writer/filmmaker based in North Vancouver. Her feature documentary Dirt garnered three Leos in 2009 and the Best Documentary Award at the Female Eye Festival. Broadcast on DOC Channel, select presentations include the British Wellcome Museum, "Melancholy of Progress" at the Hong-gah Museum in Taiwan, NYMASA in New York, New York, and a screening at the Artisan Gallery at Kala Ghoda Arts Festival in Mumbai, India in February 2016. In 2009, Meghna presented "Dirt: A Social Mirror" at the Global Conference for Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging at University of Oxford. Featured presentations were published in "From Conflict to Belonging: Moving Multiculturalism Forward" by Rodopi/Brill in 2012.
Her collaborative triptych on violence "Bol" has screened in Ireland, Guatemala, India and Canada. From January 21st - March 2016, it will be featured as an installation at the Campbell River Art Gallery as part of a group art show "Myth of Fishes". Her previous work has screened and won awards at festivals in North America.
For the past few years, Meghna has been developing a dramatic feature as one of the first Treaty co-productions with India, and more recently a documentary on Vancouver, British Columbia based artists amongst other projects. She has been part of Canadian Trade Missions to India to promote co-productions and educational initiatives between her two countries. In her home town, Meghna coordinated the well-regarded Justice Forum for DOXA Documentary Festival, and has been a juror and mentor for several Canadian arts organizations on the local, provincial and federal level. In 2014, Meghna was nominated for the Remarkable Women series for the City of Vancouver. She joined Emily Carr University of Art and Design as a sessional faculty in 2015.
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