- This event is over. However, time travel possible through our Audio & Video! See upcoming events
The Little Book of the Little Man
Manav Drifts Beyond His Classroom to Flowers, Trees and Birds
Speakers
Documentary | 2021 | 60 Minutes | Himachali and Hindi | English subtitles
Directed by Shuchi Prasad
A young boy in a small Himachali village returns to school after the lockdown to find himself struggling to learn. Through his school window, his day dreams pave several routes, forming a diary of his contemplations; circular questions, pressed flowers, the leaf of his ancestor’s tree, a bird that sings in the night. As his boyhood unfolds, it is all the more befitting that the boy’s name, ’Manav’, is a Sanskrit word that means ‘Human’.
The film has made several rounds in the festival circuit:
a) Golden Royal Bengal Tiger Award for Best Documentary Film, Kolkata International Film Festival 2022.
b) Kerala Premiere, International Documentary Short Film Festival Kerala (IDSFFK 2022)
c) Selected at 51st Roshd International Film Festival, Iran, organised by education and culture ministry of Iran
The screening will be followed by a conversation with the director, Shuchi and anthropologist and filmmaker Usha Rao; and a Q&A with the audience.
In collaboration with
Speakers
Shuchi Prasad
Shuchi Prasad is an independent filmmaker based in Himachal Pradesh. She completed her Degree in Sociology at Hindu College, Delhi University, and her post-graduation in Creative Documentary Filmmaking from SACAC (Sri Aurobindo Center for Arts and Communication).
Through cinema, she seeks to find the poetics of image in the interstices between Art, Mythology, Philosophy and Childhood.
Usha Rao
Usha Rao is an anthropologist and media maker. Over a decade she has been trying to make sense of what makes a city and what it means to people who inhabit it. Her first film Our Metropolis (2014) co-directed by Gautam Sonti, is about the transformation of Bangalore and its aftermath. Usha continues to study the footprint of the metro on neighborhoods. She likes to bring together text, sound and images in her work.
