Bengaluru Fest Trains Lens on the Watchful Eye, Exclusion

BENGALURU: The third edition of Urban Lens, a film festival organised by Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS), an inter-disciplinary institution that works around the urban, starts on Friday.

Screenings of various films and conversations with their makers will be spread across three days at its campus in Sadashivanagar. The days will close with panel discussions by filmmakers curated by Mumbai-based filmmaker-cinematographer Avijit Mukul Kishore. The panel on day one features Madhusree Dutta and Joshy Joseph; on day two Navroze Contractor and Rahul Roy; and day three Sabeena Gadihoke, Paromita Vohra and Ayisha Abraham.

The curator of the festival, filmmaker Subasri Krishnan, heads the media lab of IIHS. Her documentary This or That Person, which looks at the idea of official identity documents and, in that context, the Unique Identity number, was adjudged as the Best Short Documentary at the 6th International Film Festival of Kerala. “The film is a conversation with the State about ideas of inclusion, exclusion, surveillance and citizenship through an interrogation of the Unique Identity number project which introduced in 2009.”

This edition features a wide range of films from India and abroad, including animation and student films such as Ayodhya Gatha by Vani Subramanian and The Factory by Rahul Roy.

Entry is free. For details, log on to http:/iihs.co.in/urbanlens or urbanlens@iihs.ac.in.

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