YCP 1997
Monteiro,Anjali and Jayasankar,K.P.
YCP 1997 videorecording a film by Anjali Monteiro and K. P. Jayasankar ; Unit for Media and Communications, Tata Institute of Social Sciences. - Bombay Monteiro,Anjali and Jayasankar,K.P. c1997 - 1 videodisc (43 min.) sd., col 4 3/4 in
Cataloged from container.
Built between 1865 and 1876, Yerwada Central Prison (YCP), Pune, is one of the oldest prisons in India, with over 2500 inmates. In this video, six poets and artistes of the YCP share their work, their lives…
Through their poems and musings, the film explores the modes in which they creatively cope with the pain and stigma of incarceration, in the process questioning their selfhood and the socially constructed divides between ‘us’ and ‘them’, between the ‘normal’ and the ‘deviant’.
DVD ; PAL.
In English and Hindi with English subtitles.
Award:
Certificate of Merit, Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF), India, 1998;
Jury’s Award for Best Innovation at the Astra Festival of Anthropological Documentary Film, Sibiu, Romania, 1998;
Selected Screenings:
Chingari South Asian Film Festival, Madison-Wisconsin, 1997;
Prakriti, Pune, 1998;
Sakshi Film Festival, Bangalore, 1998;
Dhaka Film Festival, 1999;
6th International Festival of Ethnographic Film, Royal Anthropological Institute, London, UK, 1998;
New Delhi Video Festival, 1999;
Munich International Film Festival, 1999;
Himal South Asia Documentary Film Festival, Kathmandu, 1999;
Parnu Film Festival, Estonia, 2002;
Social Communication Cinema Festival, Calcutta, 2002;
Films for Freedom, Kotkata, 2005;
culture --India
exclusion--India
performing arts--India
prison --India
portraits --India
Documentary--Feature.
349.420835 / YC
YCP 1997 videorecording a film by Anjali Monteiro and K. P. Jayasankar ; Unit for Media and Communications, Tata Institute of Social Sciences. - Bombay Monteiro,Anjali and Jayasankar,K.P. c1997 - 1 videodisc (43 min.) sd., col 4 3/4 in
Cataloged from container.
Built between 1865 and 1876, Yerwada Central Prison (YCP), Pune, is one of the oldest prisons in India, with over 2500 inmates. In this video, six poets and artistes of the YCP share their work, their lives…
Through their poems and musings, the film explores the modes in which they creatively cope with the pain and stigma of incarceration, in the process questioning their selfhood and the socially constructed divides between ‘us’ and ‘them’, between the ‘normal’ and the ‘deviant’.
DVD ; PAL.
In English and Hindi with English subtitles.
Award:
Certificate of Merit, Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF), India, 1998;
Jury’s Award for Best Innovation at the Astra Festival of Anthropological Documentary Film, Sibiu, Romania, 1998;
Selected Screenings:
Chingari South Asian Film Festival, Madison-Wisconsin, 1997;
Prakriti, Pune, 1998;
Sakshi Film Festival, Bangalore, 1998;
Dhaka Film Festival, 1999;
6th International Festival of Ethnographic Film, Royal Anthropological Institute, London, UK, 1998;
New Delhi Video Festival, 1999;
Munich International Film Festival, 1999;
Himal South Asia Documentary Film Festival, Kathmandu, 1999;
Parnu Film Festival, Estonia, 2002;
Social Communication Cinema Festival, Calcutta, 2002;
Films for Freedom, Kotkata, 2005;
culture --India
exclusion--India
performing arts--India
prison --India
portraits --India
Documentary--Feature.
349.420835 / YC