Sun, Dec 28, 7 pm: Pirate Cinema Bombay Sneak Preview

[Pirate Cinema Bombay]

                                                             Pirate  
Cinema Bombay
                                                                     
Sneak Preview
                                                              Sunday,  
December 28
                                                                     7  
pm - 10 pm
                                                             www.piratecinema.org

                                                                    
José Benazeraf
                                                                   
Kathryn Bigelow
                                                                        
Guy Debord
                                                                      
Paula Delsol
                                                                   
Philippe Garrel
                                                                  Jean- 
Luc Godard
                                                                      
Isidore Isou
                                                                        
Ken Jacobs
                                                                    
Joseph Marzano
                                                               
Aleksandr Medvedkin
                                                                       
Jonas Mekas
                                                                
Artavazd Peleshian
                                                                      
Nicholas Ray
                                                                      
Satyajit Ray
                                                                        
Jack Smith
                                                                       
Agnes Varda
                                                                      
Dziga Vertov
                                                                    
Andy Wachowski
                                                                   
Larry Wachowski
                                                                    
Koji Wakamatsu
                                                                       
Andy Warhol

                                                                      
CAMP Rooftop
                                                              301 Alif  
Apartments
                                                                34A  
Chuim Village
                                                                        Khar 
  West
                                                                 www.camputer.org

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Pirate Cinema
Not just a series of screenings, or a collection of pirated movies,  
but the
question of making visible, and then temporarily obsolete, a specific  
social
relation, mediated by copyrighted images, and a specific type of  
separation,
or detachment, perfected by imaginary copyrights, that affects the art  
of
cinema, the space of cinema, and the discourse of cinema. Unlike New  
Cinema,
which is opposed to Old Cinema, Alternative Cinema, which is opposed to
Mainstream Cinema, Political Cinema, which is opposed to Unpolitical  
Cinema,
French Cinema, which is opposed to American Cinema, or Digital Cinema,  
which is
opposed to nothing at all, Pirate Cinema is opposed to Proprietary  
Cinema.

Pirate Cinema Bombay
Not just a rooftop, even though that's not the least of it. Most  
obviously, a
problem of transportation and translation. Pirate Cinema, unlike a  
pirated
movie, does not travel easily, it cannot be exported, imported,  
airlifted,
airdropped. It can't be booked, it won't be able to fill a space in  
the arts, or
a certain vacuum in arthouse. In the best case, it will itself create  
a vacuum.
Pirate Cinema can be translated, but not literally, and probably not  
by Pirate
Cinema, and it can be copied, but not without a particular kind of  
pragmatism,
or tactical ignorance, which itself would have to be copied, or  
translated. One
can say: "The Beverly Hills of Bollywood", but the question is, then  
what?

Pirate Cinema Bombay Sneak Preview
Not just a sneak preview, or rather not a sneak preview at all, not in  
the sense
that most of the images to be projected would reappear again. Still,  
it's a
hint, and still, there's a story, a hint at a story, or history within  
cinema,
which is sometimes even a history without cinema, and almost always a  
history
slightly outside cinema, just enough to make retrospective impossible,  
and
instead allow for preview. The story itself - how does one translate  
"punk"
again, to hindi... ah, we forgot, one doesn't - begins in the west,  
and then
goes east, and back in time. This screening, unlike some that will  
follow, is
much more encyclopedia than pedagogy. Two hours of film, two lines of  
dialogue.

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                                                             pirate  
cinema bombay
                                                             sundays  
from 7 to 10
                                                             www.piratecinema.org


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