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METROSCAPE: LOOKING GLASS
DELHI
Cinema
 The
annual Canadian film festival is back, this time with a different
USP: in previous years, the fest showcased short films, documentaries
and feature films from the country. This year though, there will only
be international-award-winning productions, like The Decline of the
American Empire, a winner of the Critics' Award at Cannes. Also Shoemaker,
Stowaways, Lotus Eaters, Circle of Two and Jerome's Secret. "The
films bring with them regional sensibilities but universal themes,"
says Gautam Hooja of Indo-Canadian Films International, one of the organisers.
At India International Centre, May 10-16. Call (011) 687-6500.
Art Fest
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| TALKING ART: Sarat Maharaj |
The Documenta,
the global contemporary art festival held once in five years in Kessel,
Germany, is now taking a much needed (call it post-modernist) break from
its 45-year-old routine. The 11th version of the fest, which concludes
in Kassel in 2002, consists of symposia, film shows and lectures by noted
scholars in six cities around the world-a honourable attempt to move beyond
exclusively Euro or Western-centric paradigms of art appreciation. One
of the stops is Delhi. The Gandhi-inspired topic might appear a trifle
pedantic--Experiments with Truth: Transitional Justice and Process
of Truth and Reconciliation--but offers the promise of a debate focusing
essentially on the current global condition that celebrates plurality
on one hand and encourages extreme ethnocentrism on the other. Taking
the podium from May 7 to May 12 at the India Habitat Centre will be Okwui
Enwezor, the artistic director of the Documenta 11, and Sarat Maharaj,
co-curator and professor of art history at Goldsmiths College, London,
among other filmmakers and academics. The video and film programme continues
till May 21. Admission is free. For more details, call (011) 468-2001/2.
BANGALORE
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| CLASSIC RETURN: Prasad and Dattani |
Theatre-goers have
something to look forward to. Bangalore Little Theatre presents
Luigi Pirandello's classic Henry IV from May 7 to 12 at Alliance Francaise.
The conflicting plot unfolds with a young man seeking employment in an
aristocrat's villa. His job is to dress up in 11th century costume and
pose as attendant to a man who thinks he is Henry IV. Other characters-friends
of "Henry IV"-drop in to cure him of his delusion. At times
comic, at times moving, the play stars Bangalore-based playwright Mahesh
Dattani, who returns to acting after seven years, as Henry IV, and National
School of Drama graduate Mallika Prasad as Matilda. Directed by Prakash
Belawadi, costumes are by Vidya Appaiah, sets and lights are by Jayaram.
Tickets at leading department stores. Call (080) 552-6622 for reservations.
--Contributed by Anna M.M Vetticad, Anshul
Avijit and Stephen David
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