Archives for January2014

Amateur Cinema and ‘Moving By Design Press’

A new project: ‘Moving By Design Press‘ – see ACSN Projects for the open letter from the founder of the project.

‘From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf’

A unique and inspiring use of mobile phone footage in Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran’s (CAMP) documentary ‘From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf‘ (IN, 2013)

Amateur inter-media and films – recent research

Two recent research papers on amateur film and amateur inter-media will be presented at ‘The Many Lives of Indian Cinema: 1913-2013 and beyond‘ conference, Delhi, 8-11 January 2014:

– ‘Hindi Cinema: An Amateur Inter-Media Assortment’, Ravikant, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, and Prabhat K Jha, Ankur Societies for Alternatives in Education, Delhi.
– ‘Archiving Colonial Memories: Amateur Films vs. Imperial History’, Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes, University of Cambridge.

The conference program is available here.

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