Ticket - Film Screening - How Do I Show the Ocean Space You Carried Inside You? - May 07 - 5:30 PM
HOW DO I SHOW THE OCEAN SPACE YOU CARRIED INSIDE YOU? is a film driven by love, and wonder. It is about two individuals, artists, living, working and growing, together and separately. Through the works of the male protagonist, the film brings to us his sharp commentary on the ethos of his times: growing consumerism and pollution; state violence and repression; and the yearning for freedom, both artistic and personal. Memories and objects come together to situate these events in the city of Bombay, very different from the Mumbai of today.
The film is in English and Gujarati, with English subtitles.
Duration: 42 mins
Followed by Q&A with Bharati Kapadia and Abeer Khan
About the artists
Bharati Kapadia is a Mumbai based visual artist, performer and filmmaker. She was awarded the BASE scholarship for Artistic Research//Art based Philosophy for 2017 and has presented at the Aesthetic and the Political in Contemporary India: Deleuzian Explorations, Mumbai, 2017. She was the co-curator of VAICA 1, the festival of video art by Indian contemporary artists 2019 and VAICA 2, presented online, 2021. She was in Frankfurt in July 2022 for the international, interdisciplinary project ‘Bodies Unprotected’ curated by Dr. Sandra Noeth and hosted by Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, to show her the film HOW DO I SHOW THE OCEAN SPACE YOU CARRIED INSIDE YOU? which was made for this project.
Abeer Khan is a filmmaker and photographer based in Mumbai. Central to her work is often the complex inner world of her characters. Her films have been represented at film festivals such as VAICA I & II, festival of Video Art by Indian Contemporary Artists; Chennai International Film Festival; Jaipur International Film Festival; Hyderabad Literary Festival; Urban Lens Film Festival, Bangalore; Vikalp screenings, Mumbai, and her photographs showcased by Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Berlin; Sonrisas de Bombay, Spain; National Geographic USA; Collateral Global – London; Better Photography and Platform magazines.
