3rd I South Asian Independent Film

• 3rd i Co-presents at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival 2012
  March 11, 13, 15, 18

• 3rd i Co-presents with Oddball Films: EXPERIMENTA India
  Experimental Short films from India
  March 23

• 3rd i Co-presents with the Asian Art Museum–A Talk: Shakespeare and Hindi Cinema
  March 31

3rd i Co-presents at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival 2012:

Abu, Son of Adam, March 11 & 18,
and Delhi in a Day, March 13 & 15

Abu, Son of Adam
Salim Ahmed / India / 101 min

Indiaʼs official entry to the 84th Academy Awards is a meditative story of the determination of an aging couple to perform the Islamic pilgrimage of Hajj. This simple yet revelatory cinematic experience unpretentiously explores virtue, loyalty, and
devotion against the picturesque simplicity of rural Kerala.

March 11, 2012, 12:00 pm, SF Film Society Cinema at New People, San Francisco
March 18th, 2012, 4:45 pm, Camera 3 Cinemas San Jose
For tickets and more information:

http://festival.caamedia.org/30/guide/program/abu-son-of-adam/

Delhi in a Day
Prashant Nair / India / 2011 / 88 min

The nouveau-riche Ghambir family resides in a palatial mansion in South Delhi. When the idealistic son of an important British business associate arrives, he finds his presence has upset the natural order of things. A comedic portrayal of class differences in a contemporary Delhi family home.

March 13th, 2012, 9 pm, Sundance Kabuki Cinemas SF
March 15th, 2012, 6:45 pm, Sundance Kabuki
For tickets and more information:

http://festival.caamedia.org/30/guide/program/delhi-in-a-day/

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3rd i Co-presents with Oddball Films: EXPERIMENTA India
Experimental Short films from India

When: Friday, March 23rd at 7:30pm*
Where: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco
Admission: $10* Limited Seating RSVP to programming@oddballfilm.com or 415-558-8117

What: Shai Heredia, Experimenta India’s Festival Director, has curated and will introduce 2 programs that highlight contemporary works as well as trace a history of Indian experimental film beyond Bollywood and the industrial system and offer a non-Western perspective on artists’ film as an alternative to the dominant US and Eurocentric histories.

*Note early start time. The price of a single admission ticket allows access to both shows. They will run back to back with a 15min intermission. Total run time for both programs is 125min.

PROGRAM 1: Retrospective includes:
And I Make Short Films (S.N.S.Sastry, 1968) An impressionistic portrayal of short-film making by a short-film maker.
Abid (Pramod Pati, 1972) A rapidly moving series of photographed drawings, in pixilation.
Claxplosion (1968, Pramod Pati) Using pixilation and electronic music, this is an experimental family planning film.
Trip (Pramod Pati 1970) A film on Bombay that uses pixellation to depict the transitory nature of daily life in an urban context.
Explorer (Pramod Pati, 1968) Pati attempts to portray a country caught between a number of opposing and diverging tendencies.
Child on Chess Board (Vijay B. Chandra, India, 1979) This abstract narrative, deals with the parallel themes of “Man with all knowledge” and “Child, the father of man.”

PROGRAM 2: Contemporary Works
Jan Villa (Natasha Mendonca, 2011), After the monsoon floods of 2005 that submerged Bombay, the filmmaker returns to her city to examine the personal impact of the devastating event.
City Beyond (Shreyasi Kar, 2011,) City Beyond is a film that speculates about the lives led by the inhabitants of a submerged civilization. The superstructure has been recently discovered in the crevices of the ocean floor.
Bare (Santana Issar, 2006) A poignant short in which the filmmaker uses home-movie footage and recorded telephone conversations to reach out to her alcoholic father.
There is Something in the Air (Iram Ghufran, 2011) There is Something in the Air is a call from the periphery of sanity.

Full details about the short films and event:

http://oddballfilms.blogspot.com/2012/02/experimenta-india-fri-mar-23-730pm.html

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3rd i Co-presents with the Asian Art Museum–A Talk: Shakespeare and Hindi Cinema

When: Saturday, March 31st at 01:00PM
Where: Asian Art Museum, Samsung Hall, 200 Larkin St., San Francisco, CA 94102
Admission: FREE with museum admission.

This talk, co-presented with 3rd i, will explore adaptations of Shakespeare in popular Hindi cinema, a.k.a. Bollywood. Through clips from films as varied as Shakespeare, Wallah, Angoor, and Omkara, Gitanjali Shahani will explore the colonial contexts of Shakespearean production and the post-colonial contexts of Shakespearean reproduction in India. Shahani is Assistant Professor of English at San Francisco State University where she teaches courses on Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean drama as well as contemporary South Asian literatures.

For more information: http://www.asianart.org/helios/events/index.php?eID=2491