{"id":972,"date":"2004-03-04T14:31:38","date_gmt":"2004-03-04T20:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=972"},"modified":"2025-01-10T08:56:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:56:20","slug":"o-lover-of-life-experimental-narrative-from-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2004\/03\/04\/o-lover-of-life-experimental-narrative-from-india\/","title":{"rendered":"O Lover of Life: Experimental Narrative from India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Thursday, March 4, 2004, 8pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/07\/rasikan-re-277.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2452 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/07\/rasikan-re-277.jpg\" alt=\"rasikan-re-277\" width=\"450\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Ancient and contemporary arts of India are at the center of three startling video works by Indian makers, which blur reality and fiction with their experimental approach toward narrative. Presented by Monica Bhasin, graduate student in Film and Video at the School of the Art Institute. Oracles of Kerala state are the subjects of <em>Kshurasya Dhara (The Razor\u2019s Edge)<\/em> (2002), a quasi-documentary by Vipin Vijay. Frenzied dances of the possessed, rock-art images, ribald songs, and ecstatic trances are cannily arranged to \u201cmake the viewer aware of the constructedness of documentary reality.\u201d\u00a0 Pooja Kaul\u2019s <em>Winter Trail <\/em>(2002) follows two women in pursuit of an historical figure: Amrita Sher-Gil, one of India\u2019s first modern painters, a half-Indian, half-Hungarian woman who died mysteriously at the age of\u00a0 twenty-eight. Kaul\u2019s <em>Rasikan Re (O Lover of Life) <\/em>(2002) merges narrative with musical structure: presenting the cautious attraction of two neighbors in an apartment block, Kaul sees the young woman, Madhu, as a morning raga, full of hope and expectancy; her older suitor, Kedar, is a night raga, austere but with the knowledge of sensuality (Monica Bhasin). 2002\u20142003, various directors, India, ca. 71 min, video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, March 4, 2004, 8pm Ancient and contemporary arts of India are at the center of three startling video works by Indian makers, which blur reality and fiction with their experimental approach toward narrative. Presented by Monica Bhasin, graduate student in Film and Video at the School of the Art Institute. Oracles of Kerala state [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2004\/03\/04\/o-lover-of-life-experimental-narrative-from-india\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from O Lover of Life: Experimental Narrative from India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":2452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[83,152,250,516],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-9","tag-asia","tag-curators-and-programmers","tag-group-programs","tag-saic-alumni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","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=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10086,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/10086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}