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Goethe Institut showcases Jothorleena


Published : 20 Sep 2019 04:55 PM | Updated : 07 Sep 2020 05:50 PM

Goethe-Institut Bangladesh, in cooperation with the International Film Initiative of Bangladesh (IFIB), is organizing a film screening and discussion series “Through Her Eyes - A space to watch and discuss films with women filmmakers of Bangladesh” today at 5 pm at its auditorium.

In the seventh edition of this popular film screening series, a documentary film titled ‘Jothorleena’ directed by Dilara Begum Jolly to be screened. In addition, some performance arts video by the same filmmaker is to be shown to the audience.

‘Jothorleena’ is the first documentary film by Dilara Begum Jolly. The cardinal strength of this film is its aesthetic presentation. It is an uniquely experimental production in the sense that, it stretched the customary generic parameters of a documentary film to transport it from the veridical to the poetic field.

The documentary is about the war that initiates the destruction of the womb yet it is eclipsed by the avowed resoluteness of the survival of humanity- this is what is irrefutably established by the role Roma Chowdhury played in contributing to building a post-war society fed on the spirit of the war. The anguish of a brow- beaten mother who had lost a child and now confronts the turbulent waves of war; nature mirroring her agonizing silence; a display of indefatigable zest for life are the recipes that constitute the soul of this film. The death-defying resilience of human spirit, a passionate radical mind nestling hidden within a ravaged body, a sapling rearing is head amidst a wasteland of destruction nourished by nature’s regenerative care many such unarticulated dialogue found expression through mind blowing succinct visual images in this film.

Born in 1960, Chittagong, Dilara Begum Jolly touches upon themes of gender, trauma and the female body. Initially trained as a painter, she has expanded her practice to include various media such as performance, video and sound. Jolly has developed a signature practice of needling on paper and, more recently, photographs – a painstaking process during which she draws motifs on paper, or highlights areas on photographs, through needle prickling. Her work features in the Bangladesh National Museum, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy National Art Gallery and many other private collections in Bangladesh and abroad.

Through Her Eyes gives film enthusiasts, film students, academics, film professionals, funding agencies, broadcasters, rights groups and journalists a regular opportunity to watch films by women film-makers currently working in Bangladesh, and to interact with them directly at the end of the screening.

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