Urban Lens 2020 | Prateek Vats & Bigyna Dahal in conversation with Surabhi Sharma

Описание: Prateek Vats & Bigyna Dahal will be in conversation with Surabhi Sharma about their film ‘Eeb Allay Ooo’, practice and more. For more details about the film & crew, visit: https://iihsurbanlens.in/portfolio-it...

The Urban Lens Film Festival is a one-of-a-kind international film festival that brings together filmmakers, academics and urban practitioners to dialogue with each other on cinema and the urban experience. Curated by the IIHS Media Lab, the festival has presented 174 films from various genres from 35 countries in 30 languages.

The seventh edition of the festival will be hosted online from 1 – 6 December 2020, in association with the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan and the Danish Cultural Institute.

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Synopsis:
Anjani, a young migrant, battles hordes of monkeys as a contractual monkey repeller, a newly created government job to tackle the monkey menace in the heart of Delhi. His job profile entails mimicking aggressive langurs, the original and extremely effective employees for the task. The sacred pests shred Anjani’s dignity and courage in quick succession, and make such a mockery of his professional ineptitude that an early discharge seems imminent. But when admonished by his pregnant sister, Anjani grits his teeth and decides to counter monkey business with monkey business of his own.
The narrative of the film is shaped by extensive use of non-fiction elements, incorporating non-professional actors alongside trained actors. Vérité footage is mixed with crafted mis-en- scène to weave a revealing account seeped in reality, which is as stark as it is absurd.

Director's Bio:
Prateek is an independent filmmaker based in Mumbai. A graduate of the film direction course from Film & Television Institute of India (FTII), he has directed both fiction as well as non-fiction films which have been showcased at various film festivals and non-formal spaces. His debut feature documentary, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, was awarded the Special Jury Award at the 65th National Film Awards. Eeb Allay Ooo! is his first fiction feature length film.

Sound Recordist and Designer :
Bigyna Dahal is an alumni of FTII, Pune, the prestigious film school of India where he did his specialisation in Sound Recording and Sound Design. While in film school, three of his student films were awarded the National Award in the best short Film category.

After finishing his studies Bigyna moved to Mumbai and has been working on various projects across genres which includes - feature films, advertisements, documentaries, short films, corporate videos, promos etc. He is associated with films like Ralang Road, Shahid, Mantra, Peddlers (unrelesased) and Asha Jawar Majhe (LABOUR of LOVE) which won the National Award for Best Sound Design in 2015 to name a few.

Bigyna also holds a degree in Physics with Photography from Fergusson college, Pune. He is extremely passionate about music and like many other who come from his state Sikkim is a music enthusiast himself.

He loves to travel and explore places and people. During most of his travels he spends time recording sounds native to each place and to understand and explore the various soundscapes each place has to offer.

Conversationalist’s Bio:
Surabhi Sharma studied film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, and made her first film in 2001.

She has worked on several feature length documentaries apart from some short fiction films and video installations. Her key concern has been documenting cities in transition through the lens of labour, music and migration, and most recently reproductive labour. Cinema verite and ethnography are the genres that inform her filmmaking.