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== Life and education==
== Life and education==


Madhusree Dutta was born in the industrial town of [[Jamshedpur]], [[Jharkhand]] (then Bihar). She has studied Economics at [[Jadavpur University]], [[Kolkata]] and Dramatics at [[National School of Drama]], New Delhi. In 1987 Dutta shifted her base to Mumbai ( called Bombay in 1987).
Madhusree Dutta was born in the industrial town of [[Jamshedpur]], [[Jharkhand]] (then Bihar). She has studied Economics at [[Jadavpur University]], [[Kolkata]] and Dramatics at [[National School of Drama]], New Delhi. In 1987 Dutta shifted her base to [[Mumbai]] ( called Bombay in 1987).

Dutta was jury in [[Berlinale]] ( Berlin International Film Festival ) [https://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2015/05_boulevard_2015/05_boulevard_listing_2015.html?item=51601&navi=43082 Shorts in 2015] ; [[Feminale]]: International Women's Film Festival, Cologne in 2006; Message to Man International Documentary Film Festival, St. Petersburg in 2001; and was chair person of the jury in International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala in 2009; and SIGNS Festival of Digital Videos in 2014. Her retrospectives were held in MIFF ([[Mumbai International Film Festival|Mumbai International Documentary Festival]]), 2018<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://scroll.in/reel/866847/nothing-is-too-sacred-to-be-touched-madhusree-dutta-on-the-evolving-world-of-her-documentaries|title=‘Nothing is too sacred to be touched’: Madhusree Dutta on the evolving world of her documentaries|last=Kulkarni|first=Damini|work=Scroll.in|access-date=2018-08-09|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://ourfrontcover.com/homepageposts/madhusree-dutta-not-just-filmmaker-retrospective/|title=Madhusree Dutta not just a filmmaker-a retrospective|work=Our Frontcover|access-date=2018-08-09|language=en-US}}</ref>; Persistance Resistance Film Festival, Delhi in 2008; [[Madurai]] Film Festival in 2007; [[NGBK]] Gallery; Berlin in 2001.

Currently she lives in Cologne, Germany. She has joined as the Artistic Director of [[:de:Akademie_der_Künste_der_Welt|Akademie der Kunste der Welt]] <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.rundschau-online.de/kultur/akademie-der-kuenste-der-welt-neue-leiterin-wird-von-koelner-kulturgroessen-empfangen-29902432|title=Akademie der Künste der Welt: Neue Leiterin wird von Kölner Kulturgrößen empfangen|last=Hill|first=Axel|work=Kölnische Rundschau|access-date=2018-08-09|language=de-DE}}</ref> in Cologne since 2018.


== Work ==
== Work ==


Madhusree Dutta brought art practices, [[activism]] and pedagogy together in one platform as early as in 1990 when she curated the first national level feminist cultural festival EXPRESSION. The festival witnessed coming together of feminist scholars, women artists and women's movement activists, and is regarded as a landmark in the history of [[feminism]] in India. Her works generally contemplates on [[gender]] construction, urban development, public arts and documentary practices. Most of her works are situated within a hybrid form engaging multiple genres and a provocative mixing of high art and low art. Her works often display a flamboyant mix of pedagogical, political and experimental indicating towards her multiple identities as political activist and avant garde artist. In order to achieve this mix she has developed a conceptual approach and a practical method of working in collaboration with contemporaries across disciplines and practices. Some of the artists whom she has collaborated with are filmmaker Philip Scheffner and photo artist Ines Schaber from [[Berlin]], theater director Anuradha Kapur from [[Delhi]], visual artist [[Nilima Sheikh]] from [[Baroda]] and Archana Hande and architect Rohan Shivkumar from [[Mumbai]], playwright Malini Bhattacharya from [[Kolkata]]
Madhusree Dutta brought art practices, [[activism]] and pedagogy together in one platform as early as in 1990 when she curated EXPRESSION, the first feminist arts festival. The festival witnessed coming together of feminist scholars, women artists and women's movement activists, and is regarded as a landmark in the history of feminism in India. Her works generally contemplates on [[gender]] construction, [[Urbanism|urban development]], public arts and documentary practices. Most of her works are situated within a hybrid form engaging multiple genres and a provocative mixing of high art and low art. Her works often display a flamboyant mix of pedagogical, political and experimental indicating towards her multiple identities as political activist and avant garde artist. Some of the artists, across disciplines and practices, whom she has collaborated with are filmmaker [[:de:Philip_Scheffner|Philip Scheffner]] <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pong-berlin.de/de/1/films/here-here|title=From Here to Here {{!}} pong|website=www.pong-berlin.de|language=de|access-date=2018-08-09}}</ref> and photo artist [[Schaber, ines|Ines Schaber]] from Berlin, theater director Anuradha Kapur from Delhi, visual artist [[Nilima Sheikh]] from [[Vadodara|Baroda]] and [[Archana Pandey|Archana Hande]] and architect Rohan Shivkumar from Mumbai, playwright [[Malini Bhattacharya]] from Kolkata<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.seagullbooks.org/index.php?p=book_details&book_id=OTI=|title=Seagull Book Store|website=www.seagullbooks.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-08-09}}</ref>.


The same pursuit has also led to several digital archiving projects and pedagogical initiatives. One such project Godaam is available online in the free access site PADMA (Public Access Digital Media Archive)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pad.ma|title=Pad.ma|website=Pad.ma|access-date=2018-08-09}}</ref>. She has initiated ''[[Www.loading.cologne|loading.cologne]]'', a digital public art and memory project within Akademie der Kunste der Welt.  

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Madhusree Dutta is a co-founder of Majlis (1990), an institution that works on cultural activism and women's rights in Mumbai. She functioned as executive director of the institution till March 2016<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://scroll.in/article/805688/as-mumbai-feminist-group-majlis-turns-25-co-founder-resigns-with-a-scathing-open-letter|title=As Mumbai feminist group Majlis turns 25, co-founder resigns with a scathing open letter|last=Staff|first=Scroll|work=Scroll.in|access-date=2018-08-09|language=en-US}}</ref>.<sup> </sup> She is also a founding member of [[:de:Akademie_der_Künste_der_Welt|Akademie Der Künste Der Welt]] (Academy of Arts of the World) in Cologne and member of the academic council of [http://sea.edu.in School of Environment & Architecture], Mumbai. She has been an active member of the women's movement in India and the [[World Social Forum]] (WSF) process, and has made major contribution by producing, mobilizing and disseminating arts and artists for the movements<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/motoring/under-blue-skies-and-open-road/article19108740.ece|title=Under blue skies and open road|last=Khan|first=Sameera|date=2017-06-20|work=The Hindu|access-date=2018-08-09|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>.

On 5 October 2015 she participated in a nationwide movement spearheaded by the writers and filmmakers of India to protest against the cultural policy of the state and returned the National Awards as part of the protest<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/24-members-of-film-fraternity-return-awards/article10196634.ece|title=24 members of film fraternity return awards|last=Bagchi|first=Suvojit|date=2015-11-05|work=The Hindu|access-date=2018-08-09|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://scroll.in/article/767162/why-kundan-shah-and-23-other-filmmakers-are-now-returning-their-national-awards|title=Why Kundan Shah and 23 other filmmakers are now returning their National Awards|last=Staff|first=Scroll|work=Scroll.in|access-date=2018-08-09|language=en-US}}</ref>.
=== Theatre ===
=== Theatre ===


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=== Films ===
=== Films ===
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The first film made by her is I Live in Behrampada (1993). The documentary made on a Muslim ghetto in the context of communal riots in Mumbai 1992-93 received [[Filmfare Awards|Filmfare Award]] for best documentary in 1994. The film turned out to be a serious discursive material for conflict study and the script of it was published in an anthology - Politics of Violence: From Ayodhya to Behrampada, eds. John McGuire, Peter Reeves and Howard Brasted, [[SAGE Publications|Sage Publication]],1996. Subsequently, she has made several films – documentary, shorts, video spots and non-fiction features<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0244894/|title=Dutta Madhusree|website=IMDb|access-date=2018-08-09}}</ref>. Most of her films are made with the same unit comprising cameraman Avijit Mukul Kishore<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0457254/|title=Avijit Mukul Kishore|website=IMDb|access-date=2018-08-09}}</ref> and editor Shyamal Karmakar<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1248474/|title=Shyamal Karmakar|website=IMDb|access-date=2018-08-09}}</ref>. Her 2006 film Seven Islands and A Metro<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sundaymagazine/irrepressible-metropolis/article3232137.ece|title=Irrepressible metropolis|date=2006-05-28|work=The Hindu|access-date=2018-08-09|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> <ref>{{Citation|last=Welt|first=Akademie der Kuenste der|title=2016-10-05 Madhusree Dutta|date=2016-12-28|url=https://vimeo.com/197283353|access-date=2018-08-09}}</ref>, on the city of Bombay / Mumbai was one of the first documentary films to have been commercially released in the theatres in India. Apart from making her own films she has also produced several documentaries for younger filmmakers. Her role as a pedagogue, mentor, and producer has helped to consolidate a peer group around documentary practices in Mumbai. Her films had received three National Film Awards.

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The first film made by her is I Live in Behrampada (1993). The documentary made on a Muslim ghetto in the context of communal riots in Mumbai 1992-93 received [[Filmfare Award]] for best documentary in 1994. The film turned out to be a serious discursive material for conflict study and the script of it was published in an anthology - Politics of Violence: From Ayodhya to Behrampada, eds. John McGuire, Peter Reeves and Howard Brasted, Sage Publication, 1996. Subsequently, she has made several films – documentary, shorts, video spots and non-fiction features. Most of her films are made with the same unit comprising cameraman Avijit Mukul Kishore and editor Shyamal Karmakar. Her 2006 film Seven Islands and A Metro on the city of Bombay / Mumbai was one of the first documentary films to have been commercially released in the theatres in India. Apart from making her own films she has also produced several short films for younger filmmakers. Her role as a pedagogue, mentor, and producer has helped to consolidate a peer group around documentary practices in Mumbai. Her films had received three [[National Film Awards]]<ref>https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0244894/</ref>.

On 5 October 2015 she participated in a nationwide movement spearheaded by the writers and filmmakers of India to protest against the cultural policy of the state and returned the National Awards as part of the protest.<ref>https://scroll.in/article/767162/why-kundan-shah-and-23-other-filmmakers-are-now-returning-their-national-awards</ref><ref>http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/24-members-of-film-fraternity-return-awards/article10196634.ece</ref>

=== Curatorial practices ===
=== Curatorial practices ===


Project Cinema City: Research Art and Documentary Practices<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://projectcinemacity.com|title=Cinema City|website=projectcinemacity.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-08-09}}</ref>, a monumental endeavour of multi-disciplinary interfaces of arts, is curated by her in 2009-2013. The project enquires into various layers of relationship between the city of Mumbai and the cinema that it manufactures. The project primarily argues for cinema to be regarded as a labour-intensive phenomenon that is connected to labour migration, post-industrial norm of sweatshop production, shifts in urban demography and urban development, access to technology and market etc. The project outputs contain documentary films production, public art installations, pedagogical courses, publications, and archives. The project was first exhibited at [[Berlinale]] (Berlin International Film Festival) -Forum Expanded<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/berlinale-forum/archive/program-archive/2010/artists-expanded/madhusree-dutta.html|title=Arsenal: Madhusree Dutta|website=www.arsenal-berlin.de|language=en-UK|access-date=2018-08-09}}</ref> as part of the 60th anniversary of the festival in 2010. Subsequently, it was exhibited in the galleries of [[National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai|National Gallery of Modern Art]] in Mumbai, Delhi, and Bangalore as well as in several smaller galleries and public places in 2011-14<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/mogambo-as-muse-2/|title=Mogambo as Muse|date=2012-06-17|work=The Indian Express|access-date=2018-08-09|language=en-US}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite news|url=http://in.blouinartinfo.com/ai-interview/article/809809-cinema-and-the-city-madhusree-dutta-on-curating-an-art-show-inspired-by-the-silver-screen|title=Cinema and the City: Madhusree Dutta on Curating an Art Show Inspired by the Silver Screen {{!}} Artinfo|work=Artinfo|access-date=2018-08-09|language=en}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://projectcinemacity.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Caravan_July-2012_Bombay.pdf|title=Press Release|last=Pal|first=Deepanjana|date=2012|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://urduwallahs.wordpress.com/2012/06/22/project-cinema-city-at-ngma/|title=Project Cinema City At NGMA|date=2012-06-22|work=urduwallahs|access-date=2018-08-09|language=en-US}}</ref>
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Madhusree Dutta is a co-founder of [[Majlis]] (1990), an institution that works on cultural activism and women's rights in [[Mumbai]]. She functioned as executive director of the institution till March 2016.<ref>https://scroll.in/article/805688/as-mumbai-feminist-group-majlis-turns-25-co-founder-resigns-with-a-scathing-open-letter</ref> She is also a founding member of Akademie Der Künste Der Welt (Academy of Arts of the World) in Cologne and member of the academic council of School of Environment & Architecture, [[Mumbai]]. She has been an active member of the women's movement in [[India]] and the [[World Social Forum]] (WSF) process, and has made major contribution by producing, mobilizing and disseminating arts and artists for the movements.<ref>http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/motoring/under-blue-skies-and-open-road/article19108740.ece</ref>


=== Publications ===
[http://Project%20Cinema%20City Project Cinema City]: Research Art and Documentary Practices, a monumental endeavour of multi-disciplinary interfaces of arts, is curated by her in 2009-2013. The project enquires into various layers of relationship between the city of Mumbai and the cinema that it manufactures<ref>http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sundaymagazine/irrepressible-metropolis/article3232137.ece</ref>. The project primarily argues for cinema to be regarded as a labour-intensive phenomenon that is connected to labour migration, post-industrial norm of sweatshop production, shifts in urban demography and urban development, access to technology and market etc. [[Arjun Appadurai]], social-cultural anthropologist, wrote in the Foreword of the book Project Cinema City, [[Tulika Books]], 2013 - '"The work of the Cinema City group may be seen as a Situationist move, no longer in the context of Paris in the 1950s and 1960s, but of [[Bombay]] in the 1990s and in the decade of the twenty-first century. Like the Situationists, the Cinema City group is not concerned with art as comment on the city but as a product of the city, a lens into urban life and re-situating its already existing visual elements."'The project outputs contain documentary films production, public art installations, pedagogical courses, publications, and archives<ref>http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/mogambo-as-muse-2/</ref>. The project was first exhibited at Berlinale ([[Berlin International Film Festival]]) -Forum Expanded as part of the 60th anniversary of the festival in 2010. Subsequently, it was exhibited in the galleries of [[National Gallery of Modern Art]] in [[Mumbai]], [[Delhi]], and [[Bangalore]] as well as in several smaller galleries and public places in 2011-14<ref>http://in.blouinartinfo.com/ai-interview/article/809809-cinema-and-the-city-madhusree-dutta-on-curating-an-art-show-inspired-by-the-silver-screen</ref>. Within the project Madhusree has authored dates.sites: Bombay / Mumbai (co-designed with [[Shilpa Gupta]]), [[Tulika Books]], 2012 and co-edited Project Cinema City: Bombay / Mumbai (with Kaushik Bhaumik and Rohan Shivkumar, designed by Sherna Dastur), [[Tulika Books]], 2014.<ref>http://www.printweek.in/news/tulika-books-delhi-bags-printed-book-award-publishing-12942</ref> Project Cinema City, an anthology of essays, graphics, annotated films and art works was adjudged the Best Printed Book of the Year in Publishing Next Industry Award, 2014.


* Project Cinema City, co-edited with Kaushik Bhaumik and Rohan Shivkumar, [[Tulika Books]], 2013 / [[Columbia University Press]]<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Thomas|first=Rosie|date=2017-06|title=Book Review: Madhusree Dutta, Kaushik Bhaumik and Rohan Shivkumar (Eds), Project Cinema City|url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0974927617699644|journal=BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies|language=en|volume=8|issue=1|pages=171–173|doi=10.1177/0974927617699644|issn=0974-9276}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://trishagupta.blogspot.com/2015/01/museum-of-cinema.html|title=chhotahazri: Book Review: Museum of Cinema|last=Gupta|first=Trisha|date=2015-01-05|website=chhotahazri|access-date=2018-08-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/Hq8EDvfYJMaHIiZNMDMuCK/Extract--Project-Cinema-City.html|title=Extract {{!}} Project Cinema City|last=Lounge|date=2014-01-10|work=https://www.livemint.com/|access-date=2018-08-09}}</ref>
Dutta co-edited The Nation, the State and Indian Reality with [[Flavia Agnes]] and Neera Adarkar, Samya of [[Bhatkal and Sen]], in 1996. It is an anthology of essays in the context of the demolition of Babri masjid in December 1992. Her international collaboration in book making is a project (with Ines Schaber) titled KEYWORDING: Notes on Enculturation of Words and Word Practice within the Image Archive – for the 50th anniversary of Arsenal Institute of films and Video Art – Berlin.
*[[Arjun Appadurai]], social-cultural anthropologist, wrote in the Foreword of the book - '"''The work of the Cinema City group may be seen as a Situationist move, no longer in the context of Paris in the 1950s and 1960s, but of Bombay in the 1990s and in the decade of the twenty-first century. Like the Situationists, the Cinema City group is not concerned with art as comment on the city but as a product of the city, a lens into urban life and re-situating its already existing visual elements.''"  Project Cinema City, an anthology of essays, graphics, annotated films and art works was adjudged the Best Printed Book of the Year in Publishing Next Industry Award, 2014<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.printweek.in/news/tulika-books-delhi-bags-printed-book-award-publishing-12942|title=Tulika Books (Delhi) bags printed book award at Publishing Next|website=www.printweek.in|language=en-US|access-date=2018-08-09}}</ref>.
* dates.sites: Bombay / Mumbai (co-designed with [[Shilpa Gupta]]), [[Tulika Books]], [[Columbia University Press]], 2012, a graphic timeline of the public cultures in the 20<sup>th</sup> century.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/through-the-eyes-of-a-city/article4522934.ece|title=Through the eyes of a city|last=Rangan|first=Baradwaj|date=2013-03-19|work=The Hindu|access-date=2018-08-09|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sen|first=Samita|date=2013|title=Review of dates.sites: PROJECT CINEMA CITY Bombay/Mumbai|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/23610475|journal=Social Scientist|volume=41|issue=3/4|pages=95–98}}</ref>
* The Nation, the State and Indian Identity, co-edited with [[Flavia Agnes]] and Neera Adarkar, Samya of Bhatkal and Sen, in 1996. It is an anthology of essays in the context of the demolition of [[Babri Masjid]] in December 1992.
* KEYWORDING: Notes on Enculturation of Words and Word Practice within the Image Archive, with Berlin based artist Ines Schaber. It is a book making endeavour, conceived as part of Living Archive Project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of [[:de:Arsenal_(Filminstitut)|Arsenal Institute of films and Video Art]] – Berlin<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/living-archive/projects/living-archive-archive-work-as-a-contenporary-artistic-and-curatorial-practice/individual-projects/madhusree-dutta-ines-schaber.html|title=Arsenal: Madhusree Dutta / Ines Schaber|website=www.arsenal-berlin.de|language=en-UK|access-date=2018-08-09}}</ref>
* In her pursuit for newer and subversive forms, Dutta has also produced a popular CDrom game Spice Adventures<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mag/2005/06/12/stories/2005061200190200.htm|title=The Hindu : Magazine / Lifestyle : A game, a social art project|last=thmky|website=www.thehindu.com|access-date=2018-08-09}}</ref>, in collaboration with artist [[Shilpa Gupta]]. The interactive narrative, with games and animation, unveils the secret of [[Indian cuisine]] – spices that have migrated to India from all over the world.


=== Awards ===
In her pursuit for newer and subversive forms, Dutta has also produced a popular CDrom game Spice Adventures, in collaboration with artist [[Shilpa Gupta]]. The interactive narrative, with games and animation, unveils the secret of Indian cuisine – spices that have migrated to India from all over the world. The same pursuit also led to several digital archiving projects and pedagogical initiatives in found footage filmmaking. One such project Godaam is available online in the free access site PADMA (Public Access Digital Media Archive).


* 1996, 2001 [[National Film Awards|National Film Award, India]]<ref>{{Citation|title=National Film Award for Best Film on Social Issues|date=2018-05-21|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Film_Award_for_Best_Film_on_Social_Issues&oldid=842229811|work=Wikipedia|language=en|access-date=2018-08-09}}</ref>
Dutta was jury in Berlinale [[Berlin International Film Festival]] Shorts in 2015<ref>http://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/living-archive/projects/living-archive-archive-work-as-a-contenporary-artistic-and-curatorial-practice/individual-projects/madhusree-dutta-ines-schaber.html</ref>; [[Feminale]]: International Women's Film Festival, Cologne in 2006; [[Message to Man]] International Documentary Film Festival, St. Petersburg in 2001; and was chair person of the jury in Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala International Film Festival in 2009; and SIGNS festival of digital videos in 2014. Her retrospective was held in NGBK Gallery; [[Berlin]] in 2001, in Feminale, Cologne in 2006; in Madurai Film Festival in 2007; Persistance Resistance Film Festival, [[Delhi]] in 2008 and in Signs festival for digital videos, [[Kochi]] in 2014.
* Second Best Film Award, International Video Fest, 1995;
* Best Public Service Advertisement Award, 1998;
* Best Script award in [[Shanghai International Film Festival]], 2001;
*[[IDA Award|IDPA Award]]<nowiki/>s for best Kannada film and best Bengali film, 2001;
* Special Jury Award in [http://www.filmsouthasia.org Film Southasia], 2007;
*[[John Abraham (actor)|John Abrahan]] Best Documentary award (as producer), 2012;
*[[Hivos|HIVOS]] Culture Award for Asia region, 2005
* and several citizens’ awards.


==References==
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== External links ==

[http://www.madhusreedutta.com/ Official Website]

[http://majlisbombay.org&#x20;&#x20;https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254079080_Documentary_Acts_An_Interview_with_Madhusree_Dutta&#x20;&#x20;https://www.uctv.tv/shows/7-Islands-a-Metro-with-Director-Madhusree-Dutta-31806&#x20;&#x20;http://www.india-seminar.com/2014/657/657_mad Official Website of Majlis, Cultural Center]

Research Gate: [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254079080_Documentary_Acts_An_Interview_with_Madhusree_Dutta an interview about Madhusree Duttas documentary work]

[https://www.uctv.tv/shows/7-Islands-a-Metro-with-Director-Madhusree-Dutta-31806 University of California: Interview about "7 Islands and a Metro"]

[http://www.india-seminar.com/2014/657/657_madhusree_dutta.htm Indian Seminar: Popular cinema and public culture in Bombay]

[https://newsclick.in/india/film-medium-social-change Newsclick Production: "Film as a Medium for Social Change" (article & video)]


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Vorlage:Nofootnotes Madhusree Dutta (born 1959) is an Indian filmmaker, curator, author, and cultural activist.

Life and education

Madhusree Dutta was born in the industrial town of Jamshedpur, Jharkhand (then Bihar). She has studied Economics at Jadavpur University, Kolkata and Dramatics at National School of Drama, New Delhi. In 1987 Dutta shifted her base to Mumbai ( called Bombay in 1987).

Dutta was jury in Berlinale ( Berlin International Film Festival ) Shorts in 2015 ; Feminale: International Women's Film Festival, Cologne in 2006; Message to Man International Documentary Film Festival, St. Petersburg in 2001; and was chair person of the jury in International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala in 2009; and SIGNS Festival of Digital Videos in 2014. Her retrospectives were held in MIFF (Mumbai International Documentary Festival), 2018[1][2]; Persistance Resistance Film Festival, Delhi in 2008; Madurai Film Festival in 2007; NGBK Gallery; Berlin in 2001.

Currently she lives in Cologne, Germany. She has joined as the Artistic Director of Akademie der Kunste der Welt [3] in Cologne since 2018.

Work

Madhusree Dutta brought art practices, activism and pedagogy together in one platform as early as in 1990 when she curated EXPRESSION, the first feminist arts festival. The festival witnessed coming together of feminist scholars, women artists and women's movement activists, and is regarded as a landmark in the history of feminism in India. Her works generally contemplates on gender construction, urban development, public arts and documentary practices. Most of her works are situated within a hybrid form engaging multiple genres and a provocative mixing of high art and low art. Her works often display a flamboyant mix of pedagogical, political and experimental indicating towards her multiple identities as political activist and avant garde artist. Some of the artists, across disciplines and practices, whom she has collaborated with are filmmaker Philip Scheffner [4] and photo artist Ines Schaber from Berlin, theater director Anuradha Kapur from Delhi, visual artist Nilima Sheikh from Baroda and Archana Hande and architect Rohan Shivkumar from Mumbai, playwright Malini Bhattacharya from Kolkata[5].

The same pursuit has also led to several digital archiving projects and pedagogical initiatives. One such project Godaam is available online in the free access site PADMA (Public Access Digital Media Archive)[6]. She has initiated loading.cologne, a digital public art and memory project within Akademie der Kunste der Welt.  

Madhusree Dutta is a co-founder of Majlis (1990), an institution that works on cultural activism and women's rights in Mumbai. She functioned as executive director of the institution till March 2016[7].  She is also a founding member of Akademie Der Künste Der Welt (Academy of Arts of the World) in Cologne and member of the academic council of School of Environment & Architecture, Mumbai. She has been an active member of the women's movement in India and the World Social Forum (WSF) process, and has made major contribution by producing, mobilizing and disseminating arts and artists for the movements[8].

On 5 October 2015 she participated in a nationwide movement spearheaded by the writers and filmmakers of India to protest against the cultural policy of the state and returned the National Awards as part of the protest[9] [10].

Theatre

Dutta began her career with a Bengali theatre group Anarjya (non-Aryans) in Kolkata. She was also a member of cadre of Sachetana, a feminist group in Kolkata. For Anarjya and Sachetana she directed plays both for proscenium and street theatre. A Bengali adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, and an anti-dowry musical by Malini Bhattacharya – Meye Dile Sajiye (Giving Away the Girl) are considered as two most memorable directorial works of her during that period. In Mumbai too she was active in theatre for a few years before getting fully involved with visual arts. She directed a popular street play for the women's movement – Nari Itihas ki Talash mein (In search of Women's History) in 1988 and an adaptation of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata – Aaj Pyar Bandh (Love is on Strike) in 1991. She has even dabbled with television serial in her salad days and directed a 13-episode Gujarati serial for her friend producer-actor Meenal Patel (1989–1990).

Films

The first film made by her is I Live in Behrampada (1993). The documentary made on a Muslim ghetto in the context of communal riots in Mumbai 1992-93 received Filmfare Award for best documentary in 1994. The film turned out to be a serious discursive material for conflict study and the script of it was published in an anthology - Politics of Violence: From Ayodhya to Behrampada, eds. John McGuire, Peter Reeves and Howard Brasted, Sage Publication,1996. Subsequently, she has made several films – documentary, shorts, video spots and non-fiction features[11]. Most of her films are made with the same unit comprising cameraman Avijit Mukul Kishore[12] and editor Shyamal Karmakar[13]. Her 2006 film Seven Islands and A Metro[14] [15], on the city of Bombay / Mumbai was one of the first documentary films to have been commercially released in the theatres in India. Apart from making her own films she has also produced several documentaries for younger filmmakers. Her role as a pedagogue, mentor, and producer has helped to consolidate a peer group around documentary practices in Mumbai. Her films had received three National Film Awards.

Curatorial practices

Project Cinema City: Research Art and Documentary Practices[16], a monumental endeavour of multi-disciplinary interfaces of arts, is curated by her in 2009-2013. The project enquires into various layers of relationship between the city of Mumbai and the cinema that it manufactures. The project primarily argues for cinema to be regarded as a labour-intensive phenomenon that is connected to labour migration, post-industrial norm of sweatshop production, shifts in urban demography and urban development, access to technology and market etc. The project outputs contain documentary films production, public art installations, pedagogical courses, publications, and archives. The project was first exhibited at Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival) -Forum Expanded[17] as part of the 60th anniversary of the festival in 2010. Subsequently, it was exhibited in the galleries of National Gallery of Modern Art in Mumbai, Delhi, and Bangalore as well as in several smaller galleries and public places in 2011-14[18] [19] [20][21]

Publications

  • Project Cinema City, co-edited with Kaushik Bhaumik and Rohan Shivkumar, Tulika Books, 2013 / Columbia University Press[22][23][24]
  • Arjun Appadurai, social-cultural anthropologist, wrote in the Foreword of the book - '"The work of the Cinema City group may be seen as a Situationist move, no longer in the context of Paris in the 1950s and 1960s, but of Bombay in the 1990s and in the decade of the twenty-first century. Like the Situationists, the Cinema City group is not concerned with art as comment on the city but as a product of the city, a lens into urban life and re-situating its already existing visual elements."  Project Cinema City, an anthology of essays, graphics, annotated films and art works was adjudged the Best Printed Book of the Year in Publishing Next Industry Award, 2014[25].
  • dates.sites: Bombay / Mumbai (co-designed with Shilpa Gupta), Tulika Books, Columbia University Press, 2012, a graphic timeline of the public cultures in the 20th century.[26][27]
  • The Nation, the State and Indian Identity, co-edited with Flavia Agnes and Neera Adarkar, Samya of Bhatkal and Sen, in 1996. It is an anthology of essays in the context of the demolition of Babri Masjid in December 1992.
  • KEYWORDING: Notes on Enculturation of Words and Word Practice within the Image Archive, with Berlin based artist Ines Schaber. It is a book making endeavour, conceived as part of Living Archive Project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Arsenal Institute of films and Video Art – Berlin[28]
  • In her pursuit for newer and subversive forms, Dutta has also produced a popular CDrom game Spice Adventures[29], in collaboration with artist Shilpa Gupta. The interactive narrative, with games and animation, unveils the secret of Indian cuisine – spices that have migrated to India from all over the world.

Awards

References

Vorlage:Reflist

Official Website

Official Website of Majlis, Cultural Center

Research Gate: an interview about Madhusree Duttas documentary work

University of California: Interview about "7 Islands and a Metro"

Indian Seminar: Popular cinema and public culture in Bombay

Newsclick Production: "Film as a Medium for Social Change" (article & video)

  1. ↑ Damini Kulkarni: ‘Nothing is too sacred to be touched’: Madhusree Dutta on the evolving world of her documentaries In: Scroll.in. Abgerufen am 9. August 2018 (amerikanisches Englisch). 
  2. ↑ Madhusree Dutta not just a filmmaker-a retrospective In: Our Frontcover. Abgerufen am 9. August 2018 (amerikanisches Englisch). 
  3. ↑ Axel Hill: Akademie der Künste der Welt: Neue Leiterin wird von Kölner Kulturgrößen empfangen In: Kölnische Rundschau. Abgerufen am 9. August 2018 (de-DE). 
  4. ↑ From Here to Here | pong. In: www.pong-berlin.de. Abgerufen am 9. August 2018.
  5. ↑ Seagull Book Store. In: www.seagullbooks.org. Abgerufen am 9. August 2018 (amerikanisches Englisch).
  6. ↑ Pad.ma. In: Pad.ma. Abgerufen am 9. August 2018.
  7. ↑ Scroll Staff: As Mumbai feminist group Majlis turns 25, co-founder resigns with a scathing open letter In: Scroll.in. Abgerufen am 9. August 2018 (amerikanisches Englisch). 
  8. ↑ Sameera Khan: Under blue skies and open road In: The Hindu, 20. Juni 2017. Abgerufen am 9. August 2018 (indisches Englisch). 
  9. ↑ Suvojit Bagchi: 24 members of film fraternity return awards In: The Hindu, 5. November 2015. Abgerufen am 9. August 2018 (indisches Englisch). 
  10. ↑ Scroll Staff: Why Kundan Shah and 23 other filmmakers are now returning their National Awards In: Scroll.in. Abgerufen am 9. August 2018 (amerikanisches Englisch). 
  11. ↑ Dutta Madhusree. In: IMDb. Abgerufen am 9. August 2018.
  12. ↑ Avijit Mukul Kishore. In: IMDb. Abgerufen am 9. August 2018.
  13. ↑ Shyamal Karmakar. In: IMDb. Abgerufen am 9. August 2018.
  14. ↑ Irrepressible metropolis In: The Hindu, 28. Mai 2006. Abgerufen am 9. August 2018 (indisches Englisch). 
  15. ↑ Vorlage:Citation
  16. ↑ Cinema City. In: projectcinemacity.com. Abgerufen am 9. August 2018 (amerikanisches Englisch).
  17. ↑ Arsenal: Madhusree Dutta. In: www.arsenal-berlin.de. Abgerufen am 9. August 2018 (britisches Englisch).
  18. ↑ Mogambo as Muse In: The Indian Express, 17. Juni 2012. Abgerufen am 9. August 2018 (amerikanisches Englisch). 
  19. ↑ Cinema and the City: Madhusree Dutta on Curating an Art Show Inspired by the Silver Screen | Artinfo In: Artinfo. Abgerufen am 9. August 2018 (englisch). 
  20. ↑ Deepanjana Pal: Press Release. 2012;.
  21. ↑ Project Cinema City At NGMA In: urduwallahs, 22. Juni 2012. Abgerufen am 9. August 2018 (amerikanisches Englisch). 
  22. ↑ Rosie Thomas: Book Review: Madhusree Dutta, Kaushik Bhaumik and Rohan Shivkumar (Eds), Project Cinema City. In: BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies. 8. Jahrgang, Nr. 1, Juni 2017, ISSN 0974-9276, S. 171–173, doi:10.1177/0974927617699644 (englisch, sagepub.com).
  23. ↑ Trisha Gupta: chhotahazri: Book Review: Museum of Cinema. In: chhotahazri. 5. Januar 2015, abgerufen am 9. August 2018.
  24. ↑ Lounge: Extract | Project Cinema City In: https://www.livemint.com/, 10. Januar 2014. Abgerufen am 9. August 2018 
  25. ↑ Tulika Books (Delhi) bags printed book award at Publishing Next. In: www.printweek.in. Abgerufen am 9. August 2018 (amerikanisches Englisch).
  26. ↑ Baradwaj Rangan: Through the eyes of a city In: The Hindu, 19. März 2013. Abgerufen am 9. August 2018 (indisches Englisch). 
  27. ↑ Samita Sen: Review of dates.sites: PROJECT CINEMA CITY Bombay/Mumbai. In: Social Scientist. 41. Jahrgang, Nr. 3/4, 2013, S. 95–98 (jstor.org).
  28. ↑ Arsenal: Madhusree Dutta / Ines Schaber. In: www.arsenal-berlin.de. Abgerufen am 9. August 2018 (britisches Englisch).
  29. ↑ thmky: The Hindu : Magazine / Lifestyle : A game, a social art project. In: www.thehindu.com. Abgerufen am 9. August 2018.
  30. ↑ Vorlage:Citation
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