Saacha videorecording The loom a film by Anjali Monteiro and K. P. Jayasankar ; Unit for Media and Communications, Tata Institute of Social Sciences.

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‘Saacha’ is about a poet, a painter and a city. The poet is Narayan Surve, and the painter Sudhir Patwardhan. The city is the city of Mumbai (a.k.a. Bombay), the birth place of the Indian textile industry and the industrial working class. Both the protagonists have been a part of the left cultural movement in the city. Weaving together poetry and paintings with accounts of the artists and memories of the city, the film explores the modes and politics of representation, the relevance of art in the contemporary social milieu, the decline of the urban working class in an age of structural adjustment, the dilemmas of the left and the trade union movement and the changing face of a huge metropolis.

DVD ; PAL.

In English and Hindi with English subtitles.

Award:
Second Prize, New Delhi Video Forum, 2001.

Selected Screenings:
Kalaghoda Film Festival, Mumbai, 2001;
People_s Film Fest, Bangalore, 2001;
Film South Asia (FSA), Kathmandu, 2001;
Travelling FSA, 2001;
Chingari, Wisconsin-Madison, 2001;
Nottam, Kerala, 2001;
Lahore Moving Images, 2002;
Social Communication Cinema Festival, Calcutta, 2002;
Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF), 2002;
Festival of Visual Culture, Joensuu, 2006;
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, USA, 2007;