{"id":1038,"date":"2003-03-06T02:44:03","date_gmt":"2003-03-06T08:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2021-04-23T18:15:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T18:15:51","slug":"siddeshwari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2003\/03\/06\/siddeshwari\/","title":{"rendered":"Siddeshwari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><strong>Thursday, March 6, 2003, 8pm<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span><em>Mani Kaul in person!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>The second Conversations at the Edge offering from Indian experimental cinema pioneer Mani Kaul (Department of Film, Video &amp; New Media Artist-in-Residence, Spring 2003) is <em>Siddeshwari<\/em>.\u00a0 Based on the life of legendary singer Siddeshwari Devi (1903-77), India\u2019s leading exponent of the classical thumri tradition, Kaul\u2019s biographic film brilliantly blends fiction with documentary and structures the singer\u2019s life like a piece of thumri music itself. Key moments from her story are interwoven with evocations of the music\u2019s mythic past and the compelling textures of life and death in Benares. As lyrics of the songs begin to redirect Kaul\u2019s camera eye, extraordinary images are evoked and the film begins to poetically render the ways in which music transfigured the singer\u2019s life. The film ends with footage from Siddeshwari\u2019s only television appearance\u2014a ghostly presence from a distant past accessed through a technology momentarily attuned to the world of her music (Description courtesy of Harvard Film Archive). 1989, Mani Kaul, India, 92 min, 35mm.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, March 6, 2003, 8pm Mani Kaul in person! The second Conversations at the Edge offering from Indian experimental cinema pioneer Mani Kaul (Department of Film, Video &amp; New Media Artist-in-Residence, Spring 2003) is Siddeshwari.\u00a0 Based on the life of legendary singer Siddeshwari Devi (1903-77), India\u2019s leading exponent of the classical thumri tradition, Kaul\u2019s biographic [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2003\/03\/06\/siddeshwari\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Siddeshwari<\/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":[83,423,481],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8","tag-asia","tag-monographic-shows","tag-portrait"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","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=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8884,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/8884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}