ANJALI MONTEIRO AND K.P. JAYASANKAR RETROSPECTIVE: 21 TO 23 FEBRUARY 2018
So Heddan So Hoddan(Like Here, Like There)
(52 min; 2011; dvd; English subtitles)
Recipient of the Indian Documentary Producers’ Association (IDPA) 2011 Awards for Silver in Cinematography, Silver for Sound Design and Silver for Script; Best Film Award, International Festival of Folk Music, Kathmandu 2012; and Basil Wright Film Prize, RAI Festival, Edinburgh 2013
Set in Abdasa, in Kachch, Gujarat, the film explores the life worlds of three cousins and the Fakirani Jat community
Jheeni Bini Chadariya (A Delicate Weave)
(62 min; 2017; dvd; English subtitles)
A Delicate Weave, set in Kachch, Gujarat traces four different musical journeys, all converging in the ways they affirm religious diversity, syncretism and love of the other. Drawing on the poetic and musical traditions of Sant Kabir and Shah Bhitai, as well as the folk traditions of the region, these remarkable musicians and singers bear testimony to how these oral traditions of compassion are being passed down from one generation to the next
