Films and Talk

Ruchir Joshi (film-maker, columnist and writer based in Calcutta)

This program includes two essay films Memories of a Milk City (1991) and Tales of Planet Kolkata (1993) by Ruchir Joshi, an Indian film-maker, cultural writer, and novelist based in Kolkata. Shot on 16 mm, both films reimagine the form of the essay film to propose new mays of looking at the multitudes of Indian life on-screen. The filmmaker will talk about his film practice followed by a Q and A with the audience.