{"id":869,"date":"2007-09-06T20:07:40","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T02:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=869"},"modified":"2025-01-10T08:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:30:22","slug":"cinema-of-prayoga-indian-experimental-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2007\/09\/06\/cinema-of-prayoga-indian-experimental-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinema of Prayoga: Indian Experimental Films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong>Thursday, September 6, 2007, 6pm <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1575\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/05\/prayoga450.jpg\" alt=\"prayoga450\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For nearly a century, Indian filmmakers have drawn on the country\u2019s rich aesthetic traditions to craft radically original works.\u00a0 Despite the international popularity of Bollywood, the country\u2019s \u201cCinema of Prayoga\u201d (which loosely translates as cinema of \u201cexperiment\u201d in Sanskrit) remains largely unknown. Curated by Brad Butler and Karen Mirza of no.w.here (London) and in partnership with Filter India (Mumbai), this program gathers work from multiple generations to provide a glimpse into the history of India\u2019s innovative independents. Programs includes <em>Birth of Shri Krishna<\/em> (1918, D.G. Phalke); <em>Bridging the Ocean <\/em>(1932, D.G. Phalke); <em>And I Make Short Films<\/em> (1968, S.N.S. Sastry); <em>Trip<\/em> (1970, Pramod Pati); <em>Child on a Chess Board<\/em> (1979, Vijay B. Chandra); <em>Kalighat Fetish<\/em> (1999, Ashish Avikunthak); and <em>XYZ<\/em> (2004, Amit Dutta). 1918\u20132004, various directors, India, ca. 90 min, various formats.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, September 6, 2007, 6pm For nearly a century, Indian filmmakers have drawn on the country\u2019s rich aesthetic traditions to craft radically original works.\u00a0 Despite the international popularity of Bollywood, the country\u2019s \u201cCinema of Prayoga\u201d (which loosely translates as cinema of \u201cexperiment\u201d in Sanskrit) remains largely unknown. Curated by Brad Butler and Karen Mirza of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2007\/09\/06\/cinema-of-prayoga-indian-experimental-films\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Cinema of Prayoga: Indian Experimental Films<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":1575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[83,152,211,250],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-12","tag-asia","tag-curators-and-programmers","tag-experimental","tag-group-programs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","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=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8767,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/8767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}