The sixth issue of the online film journal run by me and some rather patient friends is now out for your perusal.
Here it is: http://www.projectorhead.in
An excerpt below, from my contribution to the inaugural discoveries section at PH:
...The idea of Cinephilia is tremendously reductive
in this country – it essentially comprises of the guys in the big city
publishing e-zines or blog posts to be read by guys in another big city, or
guys in a big city organizing film screenings for the other guys in the same
big city, or the last straw: guys in one big city making short-films (or
features, recently) to be watched by guys in another big city. Basically,
Cinephilia as a metropolitan idea – a clique of metropolis-dwellers celebrating
each other. Film-love, in order to be
truly effective, has to percolate down to the rest of the country. With regards
to that, it is an encouraging sign in the last two years; the Indian film
festival circuit is evolving like an amoeba-network, a seismic wave that seems
to have no certain epicenter, but spreads as potently, nonetheless. New film
festivals seem to be coming up in smaller cities – other smaller film festivals
enter their second or third editions, new entrants to the circuit include Pune,
Kolhapur, Allahabad, Darjeeling and Jaipur. While these are still second or
third-tier cities or even state capitals, this is an encouraging sign. Encouraging
also is the annual BYOFF (Bring Your Own Film Festival) that takes place on the
beaches of Puri – it is a festival that functions with the utopian ethic of no
rules, no selection criteria and thereby, no juries and no hierarchies.
Everything that is sent to the festival is given a screening slot...
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