CHENNAI: Goethe Institut-Max Mueller Bhavan will join hands with Chennai Photo Biennale (CPB) Foundation, Cinema Rendezvous and Indo Cine Appreciation Foundation, to trace the histories of Indian and German cinema from about a century ago, in a festival titled 'Enchanted Networks - The Light of Asia'.
At the end of WW1, while
Germany
transitioned from Kaiser Wilhelm’s monarchy to the Weimar Republic, India was a colonised conglomerate of princely states announcing a peaceful revolution to become an independent state. It was also around this time that collaborations between Indians and Germans sought to reinvent aesthetic norms that rebelled against the conventions of the 19th century.
'Enchanted Networks - The Light of Asia' will throw light on this cultural confluence through themes such as discrimination and the nation-state, and how the Indian melodramatic screenplay blended with German expressionist film techniques. It will include discussions by professors Suresh Chabria and Ramu Manivannan around expressionistic classics like 'The Cabinet of Dr Caligari' by Robert Wiene, 'Nosferatu' by FW Murnau, 'Dr Mabuse, the Gambler' by Fritz Lang and the cult classic 'Metropolis' by Fritz Lang.
Orientalist films such as 'The Indian Tomb' by Joe May will also be discussed.
The festival has been conceived by Helmut Schippert, director, Goethe-Institut Chennai and curated by K Hariharan and Uma Vangal, film scholars. It will be held on July 24 and 26, and August 1.
For more details, go to www.goethe.de
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