{"id":1032,"date":"2003-02-13T02:36:34","date_gmt":"2003-02-13T08:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2025-01-10T09:06:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:06:01","slug":"uski-roti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2003\/02\/13\/uski-roti\/","title":{"rendered":"Uski Roti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Thursday, February 13, 2003, 8pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>Mani Kaul in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This spring, the Department of Film, Video &amp; New Media is pleased to have Mani Kaul as an artist-in-residence. Mr. Kaul was at the forefront of the emergence of a new cinema in India in the late 1960\u2019s and early 1970\u2019s. In the singular, visually arresting work he has produced over the past three decades, Kaul has pioneered the blending of documentary and fiction forms and has developed a distinctive cinematic style that remains open to the arts of painting, theater and music. His acclaimed first film, <em>Uski Roti <\/em>(a.k.a. A Day\u2019s Bread), is considered the first formal experiment in Indian cinema. With a Bressonian vocabulary, Hindu philosophy and profound literary approach, <em>Uski Roti<\/em> is infused with a polemic that confronts traditional representations of women. Kaul will present two other films during the season, <em>Siddeshwari <\/em>(March 6) and <em>The Servant\u2019s Shirt <\/em>(April 24)\u00a0 (KJ Mohr, excerpts courtesy of Harvard Film Archive). 1970, Mani Kaul, India, 95 min, 35mm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, February 13, 2003, 8pm Mani Kaul in person! This spring, the Department of Film, Video &amp; New Media is pleased to have Mani Kaul as an artist-in-residence. Mr. Kaul was at the forefront of the emergence of a new cinema in India in the late 1960\u2019s and early 1970\u2019s. In the singular, visually arresting [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2003\/02\/13\/uski-roti\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Uski Roti<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[83,423],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8","tag-asia","tag-monographic-shows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10110,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/10110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}