ul-Umra
2022, France/ India, 16mm, 8', B&W, silent
In 1887 the Hyderabadi Nobleman Viqar-ul-Umra commissioned a mosque to be built from his memory of the Moorish Mosques he saw on a voyage to Andalusia. This film is an attempt to remember ul-Umra's mosque through movement and stillness, image and its absence.
Exhibition format: 16mm print, DCP and ProRes 422HQ.
Awards:
2023 European Media Art Festival : Special Jury Prize
Screenings:
25.03.24, 20.00 : Guest: Gautam Valluri, Art Cinema OFF off, Ghent, Belgium
29.09.23, 19.00 : Claudia Cassidy Theatre, Chicago Cultural Center, IL, USA
29.09.23, 18.00 : Claudia Cassidy Theatre, Chicago Cultural Center, IL, USA
29.09.23, 17.00 : Claudia Cassidy Theatre, Chicago Cultural Center, IL, USA
14.07.23 - 28.07.23 : Ultra Dogme (online screening), Berlin, Germany
24.06.23, 19.00 : Screening Salon n°4, Berlin, Germany
23.06.23, 20.00 : Perceptual Poetics, Echoes from South Asia, Berlin, Germany
06.06.23, 15.30 : FICUNAM; Sala José Revueltas, Mexico City, Mexico
03.06.23, 16.00 : FICUNAM, Cineteca Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico
18.05.23, 19.30 : Braquage @ La Lumière Collective, Montréal, Canada
22.04.23, 20.30 : European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
22.04.23, 06.30 : Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
13.11.22, 16.00 : Houston Cinema Arts Festival, Houston, Texas, USA
14.10.22, 18.00 : Festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux de Paris, France