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gFest Gurugram
celebrating gender and art

DATES: 20 September - 6 October, 2024
TIME: 11 am onwards. Monday closed
VENUE: Museo Camera Centre for the Photographic Arts, Gurugram
ADDITIONAL TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, Delhi
ORGANISED BY: reFrame in collaboration with Museo Camera and Rough Edges

gFest Gurugram will showcase a range of artworks, including films, performances, mixed media installations, digital art, an interactive site and photography. While each work and artist featured represents an individual voice and expression, the Festival will highlight interconnected themes that explore gender, body politics, identity, sexuality, power, stereotypes, discrimination, exclusion, violence and labour. 

 

In addition to the art exhibits, the festival will also feature special events like live performances, talks on themes emerging from the works, and film screenings.

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EXHIBITS ON SHOW

Nur and the Nightmare 

Reya Ahmed

DIGITALLY ILLUSTRATED TALE

Mythological tropes tell a magical and subversive story. 

Ghor. Ghar. Home.

Ipsita Choudhury
INTERACTIVE SITE

Lives of Bengali migrants near the Bhalswa landfill.

Who Cares For the Caged Bird?

Chandni Ganesh

E-ZINE
The gendered nature of care for the incarcerated in the UAE.

Pahadaan da Laan

Dhaarchidi Collective
MIXED MEDIA INSTALLATION

The lives and labour of women of the Gaddi community.

Bereft

Natasha Chandhock
MIXED MEDIA INSTALLATION

On leading a queer life with multiple invisible disabilities.

Taaro’n ke Darmeyan

Fatima Juned

PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION

Gendered labour of women Muqaish artisans from Lucknow. 

 

Invisible Women

Reshma Khatoon

MIXED MEDIA INSTALLATION

5 women reclaim their identity as artists.

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Gallery I

Gallery II

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SPECIAL EVENTS

20 Sept

OPENING EVENING

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20 Sept -
6 Oct

11am -
7 pm 

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6 pm

Walkthrough with artists Fatima Juned, Reshma Khatoon, Ipsita Choudhury and Dhaarchidi Collective 

7 pm

Inaugural keynote by feminist publisher and independent researcher Urvashi Butalia

7:30 pm

A Feminist in Fragments, spoken word and hindustani vocals by artist and music educator, Urvija Priyadarshini

21 Sept

FILM SCREENINGS + CONVERSATIONS

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Gender. Filmein. Aur Hum. Part 1

In collaboration with Rough Edges 

4 pm

Ladai Chhodab Nahi by Work of a Body Collective

33' | Hindi 

The resistance of Dalit, Bahujan and Adivasi women in Jharkhand

Q&A with filmmakers

5 pm

Siege in the Air by Muntaha Amin

30' | Kashmiri and Hindi 

The impact of triple lockdown on young women in Kashmir​

5:30 pm

Tea

6 pm 

​Ek Inquilab aur Aaya: Lucknow 1920-1949 by Uma Chakravarti

66'  | Hindi and English 

Unknown stories of women's struggles to find their own ways of being

7:15 pm Filmein Aur Baatein

Why recover women's histories and voices?

Uma Chakravarti, Anupama Chandra and Farah Batool

22 Sept

LIVE PERFORMANCE

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6:30 pm

When Woman Becomes the Wheel Herself, theatrical performance on the gendered nature of pottery traditions by Sangeeta Jawla

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27 Sept

WALKTHROUGH + LIVE PERFORMANCE

6 pm

Walkthrough with artists and curators

7 pm

Dear Aphrodite, solo performance on being queer and disabled by artist Abhishek Anicca

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28 Sept

FILM SCREENINGS + CONVERSATIONS

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Gender. Filmein. Aur Hum. Part 2

In collaboration with Rough Edges

11:30 am

Making Space by Nikita Parikh

14'  | Hindi

Exploring Alsana's world, her identity and conflicts closer to home

12 pm

What's In a Name? by Najrin Islam

22'  | English

Lived realities of being young, female and Muslim

12:30 pm

Humare Beech Mein by Rajkumari Prajapati & Ruchika Negi

35'  | Hindi

A dialogue on how to film caste. What do filmmakers show, and hide?

Q&A with film team

2:30 pm 

A Winter's Elegy by Aakash Chhabra

21'  | Bhojpuri

Panipat's cloth recycling workers and its ever changing skies

3 pm 

Beyond Ratings by Aprajita Gupta

38'  | Hindi

The struggles of 3 women in the gig economy in Delhi

Q&A with filmmaker

4 pm 

Pari by Priya Sen

31' | Hindi

The recounting of a love story in Delhi

5 pm 

Inn Pannon Mein by Gurleen Grewal

19' | Bengali and Hindi

An elderly woman reflects on life as she writes her memoir

Q&A with filmmaker

5:30 pm 

Tea

6 pm 

Ek Jagah Apni by Ektara Collective. 

90' | Hindi

Two transwomen search for a house in Bhopal

7:30 pm Filmein Aur Baatein

The trans*formative power of cinema

Cast members of Ek Jagah Apni, Muskaan and Soljar Baghmare with Gautam Bhan

All films are subtitled in English. All screenings are private.

For workshops and walkthroughs, email us at info@reframeonline.net

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