Post by Okwes on Sept 23, 2006 11:05:04 GMT -5
Pacific Film Archive presents: Shooting Indians
THURSDAY, SEPT 14
Ali Kazimi in Person
Shooting Indians
Ali Kazimi (Canada, 1997)
In this richly ironic work, a twelve-year-long exchange between
Indian-born filmmaker Kazimi and Iroquois photographer Jeffrey Thomas turns into a powerful dialogue on how one relates to the Other, whether culturally or creatively. As a child in New Delhi, Kazimi was fascinated with Hollywood concepts of cowboys and Indians. Studying in Canada, he came across the legendary photographs of Edward S. Curtis, who gained fame with his portraits of Native Americans; at the same time he befriended Thomas, who views Curtis's work as "a mountain which must be crossed" in order to redefine Native American culture.
Shooting Indians interrogates the very ideas behind such concepts as the photographer and the photographed, "insiders" and "outsiders,"Native Indian and immigrant Indian, and the past and the present. By journey's end it gets to the very heart of what documentary photography hopes to achieve.
Preceded by short:
Passage from India (Ali Kazimi, Canada, 1997). The history of Indian immigration to Canada is explored through the descendants of one immigrant, Bagga Singh.
PFA Theater: 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch, Berkeley, CA
Info: (510) 642-1124 Advance Tickets: (510) 642-5249
bampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa
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Anuj Vaidya
Outreach Coordinator
Pacific Film Archive
2625 Durant Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94720-2250
510-642-6883
www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa
THURSDAY, SEPT 14
Ali Kazimi in Person
Shooting Indians
Ali Kazimi (Canada, 1997)
In this richly ironic work, a twelve-year-long exchange between
Indian-born filmmaker Kazimi and Iroquois photographer Jeffrey Thomas turns into a powerful dialogue on how one relates to the Other, whether culturally or creatively. As a child in New Delhi, Kazimi was fascinated with Hollywood concepts of cowboys and Indians. Studying in Canada, he came across the legendary photographs of Edward S. Curtis, who gained fame with his portraits of Native Americans; at the same time he befriended Thomas, who views Curtis's work as "a mountain which must be crossed" in order to redefine Native American culture.
Shooting Indians interrogates the very ideas behind such concepts as the photographer and the photographed, "insiders" and "outsiders,"Native Indian and immigrant Indian, and the past and the present. By journey's end it gets to the very heart of what documentary photography hopes to achieve.
Preceded by short:
Passage from India (Ali Kazimi, Canada, 1997). The history of Indian immigration to Canada is explored through the descendants of one immigrant, Bagga Singh.
PFA Theater: 2575 Bancroft Way at Bowditch, Berkeley, CA
Info: (510) 642-1124 Advance Tickets: (510) 642-5249
bampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa
--
Anuj Vaidya
Outreach Coordinator
Pacific Film Archive
2625 Durant Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94720-2250
510-642-6883
www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa