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gFest Gurugram
celebrating gender and art
DATES: 20 September - 6 October, 2024
TIME: 11 am onwards. Monday closed
VENUE: Museo Camera Centre for the Photographic Arts, Gurugram
ADDITIONAL TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, Delhi
ORGANISED BY: reFrame in collaboration with Museo Camera and Rough Edges
gFest Gurugram will showcase a range of artworks, including films, performances, mixed media installations, digital art, an interactive site and photography. While each work and artist featured represents an individual voice and expression, the Festival will highlight interconnected themes that explore gender, body politics, identity, sexuality, power, stereotypes, discrimination, exclusion, violence and labour.
In addition to the art exhibits, the festival will also feature special events like live performances, talks on themes emerging from the works, and film screenings.
EXHIBITS ON SHOW
Nur and the Nightmare
Reya Ahmed
DIGITALLY ILLUSTRATED TALE
Mythological tropes tell a magical and subversive story.
Ghor. Ghar. Home.
Ipsita Choudhury
INTERACTIVE SITE
Lives of Bengali migrants near the Bhalswa landfill.
Who Cares For the Caged Bird?
Chandni Ganesh
E-ZINE
The gendered nature of care for the incarcerated in the UAE.
Pahadaan da Laan
Dhaarchidi Collective
MIXED MEDIA INSTALLATION
The lives and labour of women of the Gaddi community.
Bereft
Natasha Chandhock
MIXED MEDIA INSTALLATION
On leading a queer life with multiple invisible disabilities.
Taaro’n ke Darmeyan
Fatima Juned
PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION
Gendered labour of women Muqaish artisans from Lucknow.
Invisible Women
Reshma Khatoon
MIXED MEDIA INSTALLATION
5 women reclaim their identity as artists.
Gallery I
Gallery II
SPECIAL EVENTS
20 Sept
OPENING EVENING
20 Sept -
6 Oct
11am -
7 pm
6 pm
Walkthrough with artists Fatima Juned, Reshma Khatoon, Ipsita Choudhury and Dhaarchidi Collective
7 pm
Inaugural keynote by feminist publisher and independent researcher Urvashi Butalia
7:30 pm
A Feminist in Fragments, spoken word and hindustani vocals by artist and music educator, Urvija Priyadarshini
21 Sept
FILM SCREENINGS + CONVERSATIONS
Gender. Filmein. Aur Hum. Part 1
In collaboration with Rough Edges
4 pm
Ladai Chhodab Nahi by Work of a Body Collective
33' | Hindi
The resistance of Dalit, Bahujan and Adivasi women in Jharkhand
Q&A with filmmakers
5 pm
Siege in the Air by Muntaha Amin
30' | Kashmiri and Hindi
The impact of triple lockdown on young women in Kashmir
5:30 pm
Tea
6 pm
Ek Inquilab aur Aaya: Lucknow 1920-1949 by Uma Chakravarti
66' | Hindi and English
Unknown stories of women's struggles to find their own ways of being
7:15 pm Filmein Aur Baatein
Why recover women's histories and voices?
Uma Chakravarti, Anupama Chandra and Farah Batool
22 Sept
LIVE PERFORMANCE
6:30 pm
When Woman Becomes the Wheel Herself, theatrical performance on the gendered nature of pottery traditions by Sangeeta Jawla
27 Sept
WALKTHROUGH + LIVE PERFORMANCE
6 pm
Walkthrough with artists and curators
7 pm
Dear Aphrodite, solo performance on being queer and disabled by artist Abhishek Anicca
28 Sept
FILM SCREENINGS + CONVERSATIONS
Gender. Filmein. Aur Hum. Part 2
In collaboration with Rough Edges
11:30 am
Making Space by Nikita Parikh
14' | Hindi
Exploring Alsana's world, her identity and conflicts closer to home
12 pm
What's In a Name? by Najrin Islam
22' | English
Lived realities of being young, female and Muslim
12:30 pm
Humare Beech Mein by Rajkumari Prajapati & Ruchika Negi
35' | Hindi
A dialogue on how to film caste. What do filmmakers show, and hide?
Q&A with film team
2:30 pm
A Winter's Elegy by Aakash Chhabra
21' | Bhojpuri
Panipat's cloth recycling workers and its ever changing skies
3 pm
Beyond Ratings by Aprajita Gupta
38' | Hindi
The struggles of 3 women in the gig economy in Delhi
Q&A with filmmaker
4 pm
Pari by Priya Sen
31' | Hindi
The recounting of a love story in Delhi
5 pm
Inn Pannon Mein by Gurleen Grewal
19' | Bengali and Hindi
An elderly woman reflects on life as she writes her memoir
Q&A with filmmaker
5:30 pm
Tea
6 pm
Ek Jagah Apni by Ektara Collective.
90' | Hindi
Two transwomen search for a house in Bhopal
7:30 pm Filmein Aur Baatein
The trans*formative power of cinema
Cast members of Ek Jagah Apni, Muskaan and Soljar Baghmare with Gautam Bhan
5 Oct
LIVE PERFORMANCE
7 pm
Firefly Women, an interactive physical theatre piece based on prison letters by women charged under a draconian law by Deepika Chauhan and Manjari Kaul
All films are subtitled in English. All screenings are private.
For workshops and walkthroughs, email us at info@reframeonline.net
