Drawing from a recent body of post-cinema assemblages and experiences from the Mumbai based collaborative studio CAMP, artists, filmmakers and researchers Shaina Anand and Shaunak Sen will discuss the before and after of Cinema and the Present.

Shaina Anand is a filmmaker and artist who has been working independently in film and video since 2001, and since 2007 as CAMP, a Mumbai-based studio for transdisciplinary media practices, which she co-founded with Ashok Sukumaran. CAMP’s provocative work in video and film, electronic media and public art forms over the past decade have shown how deep technical experimentation and artistic form can meet while extracting new qualities and experiences from contemporary life and materials. Their artistic work has been exhibited internationally, including at film venues such as the Flaherty seminar, the BFI London Film Festival, the Viennale and Anthology Film Archives, and in art contexts such as the Biennials of  Liverpool, Sharjah, Kochi-Muziris, Gwangju, Taipei and Shanghai, the Tate Modern, MoMA and Ars Electronica, Documenta 13 in Kassel and Kabul, the Kiemena project at Documenta 14, and the 2017 edition of the Skulptur Projekte Münster. From their home base in Chuim village, Mumbai they run the online archives https://Pad.ma and https://Indiancine.ma, and the community space R and R, among other activities including their long-running rooftop cinema. Shaina is also founding trustee of The Indian Cinema Foundation and curator of THE NEW MEDIUM, at MAMI Film Festival.

Shaunak Sen is a film-maker, researcher, and artist based in New Delhi. His feature-length documentary film ‘Cities of Sleep’ (75 mins, 2016) has been shown in over 25 International Festivals and won 6 international awards. He has curated and shown work in various art exhibition contexts in India, Switzerland, Germany and Canada. His academic essays have been published in journals including Bioscope (2013) and Widescreen (2014). He has received various international fellowships including the Prohelvetia Fellowship (Switzerland, 2016), Charles Wallace (United Kingdom, 2018), Sarai-CSDS Digital Media Fellowship (20140), Films Division of India Fellowship (2014). He held the Urban Ecologies fellowship at the University of Cambridge in 2018, and received the Sundance Film Grant and IDFA-Amsterdam documentary grant for his next documentary film in 2019.