De Sidere 7 is an experimental work that interweaves performance, dance, poetry, storytelling and text to reflect upon aspects of desire. Shot in Bangalore and Delhi, the film scripts the work of five performing artists into a sensorially rich meditation on desire’s vexed status as at once, animating force, object of suspicion and ground of contention. De Sidere 7 is conceived as a videocontemplation: a formally plural, multilayered composition intended to be experienced as an integrated whole.
About the Directors
Nicolás Grandi is a filmmaker, arts educator, musician and sculptor from Buenos Aires.
Lata Mani is a Bangalore based feminist historian and cultural critic. Her latest book is, The Integral Nature of Things: Critical Reflections on the Present, Routledge, 2013.
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Free and Open to the Public!
Screening will be followed by Q&A with directors Nicolás Grandi and Lata Mani.
Co-sponsors: Departments of English; UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, Gender Studies; UCLA Center for the Study of Women; World Arts & Cultures/Dance, English-Postcolonial Studies Workshop