Safeguarding Cinema: Film Archivists in Person

April 22–May 6, 2017

BAMPFA welcomes two distinguished guests from the international film archive community, Alexander Horwath and Shivendra Singh Dungarpur.

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  • Kalpana

  • The Clock: Notions of Cinematic Temporality

  • The Clock: Notions of Cinematic Temporality

  • Upcoming
    Films
  • Upcoming
    Events
  • Selected
    Objects
  • Past
    Films
  • Past
    Events

Past Films

  • The Clock: Notions of Cinematic Temporality

    Saturday, April 22 8 PM
    Introduction by Alexander Horwath

    Time is the concept behind this program of archival shorts and excerpts that tell a surrealist-populist story of the twentieth century. With pieces by Josef von Sternberg, Robert Frank, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and more.

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  • Kalpana

    Uday Shankar
    India, 1948

    Digital Restoration

    Saturday, May 6 3 PM
    Introduction by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur

    This gorgeous experimental drama, the only film by celebrated dancer Uday Shankar (brother of Ravi Shankar), is the semi-autobiographical story of a young man’s dream to establish an arts academy in the Himalayas.

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  • Celluloid Man

    Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
    India, 2012

    Archival Print

    Saturday, May 6 6:30 PM
    Shivendra Singh Dungarpur in person

    Celebrate a passion for film with this portrait of the pioneering efforts of film preservationist P. K. Nair, who founded the National Film Archive of India in 1964. “One of the best movies ever made about cinema ” (Mark Cousins).

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