Cine Forum with the American artist Harsha Menon

Cinema forum: Screening and debate with artist Harsha Menon

The artist, filmmaker and researcher Harsha Menon (MA, MFA) produces films, videos and sound pieces for cinema and exhibition spaces. Her practice draws from film and media studies, gender and sexuality, postcolonial theory, social practice, South Asian studies, sonic ethnography, transnational feminisms, and the role of research in film and art practice.

His previous films, shot on 35mm, were both recipients of the Panavision New Filmmaker Program and screened at the Directors Guild of America and the Sundance Film Festival. Harsha's work has been awarded a Flaherty Film Seminar Fellowship, a Harvard Center for Film Studies Fellowship, a Harvard Presidential Fellowship, a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Graduate Fellowship, and a Teaching Fellowship. Robyn Gittleman. He studied film at the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Laboratory and at New York University.

Harsha is currently an artist-in-residence at the Atelier Mondial in Basel, Switzerland. She teaches experimental film and contemporary art classes at European and North American universities.

Film to be projected: ​​fire for girls

20 minutes.

fire for girls is an experimental documentary set in the Saraswati Soni Ashram in Dehradun, located in northern India. Founded in the 1930s by Saraswati Soni, a freedom fighter for Indian independence, the ashram provides shelter for girls and widows. This observational piece focuses on the sounds of the daily morning fire ceremony, a Sanskrit ritual from 1800 B.C. C. which is still performed for empowerment and peace.

Film screening and Discussion with Harsha Menon

Harsha Menon, MA, MFA is an artist, filmmaker, and scholar who produces films, videos, and sound pieces for the cinema and the gallery. Her practice de ella considers film and media studies, gender and sexuality, post-colonial theory, self-care, social practice, south Asian studies, sonic ethnography, transnational feminisms, and the role of research in artistic and cinematic practice.

Her previous films shot on 35mm, were both recipients of the Panavision New Filmmaker Program and screened at the Director's Guild of America and the Sundance Film Festival. Harsha's work has been awarded a Flaherty Film Seminar Fellowship, a Harvard Film Study Center Fellowship, a Harvard Presidential Scholarship, a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Graduate Fellowship, and a Robyn Gittleman Teaching Fellowship. She studied filmmaking at Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab and New York University.

Harsha is currently an artist in residence at Atelier Mondial in Basel, Switzerland. She teaches classed on experimental filmmaking and contemporary art in universities in the Europe and the United States.

Film to be screened: fire for girls

Running time: 20 minutes

fire for girls is an experimental documentary set at the Saraswati Soni Ashram in Dehradun, North India. Founded in the 1930's by Saraswati Soni, a female Indian Independence freedom fighter, the ashram provides refuge for girls and widows. This observational piece focuses on the sounds of the daily morning fire ceremony, a Sanskrit ritual from 1800 BCE that is still performed for empowerment and peace.