Le prochain séminaire du CREM aura lieu vendredi prochain 9 octobre de 14h à 18h.
Notre collègue Richard Wolf propose de nous montrer deux de ses films, l’un achevé, l’autre en cours de réalisation. La discussion sera animée par Jonathan Larcher.
Nous serons dans la salle de cinéma du bâtiment Weber. Un récent article de Richard sur sa pratique filmique peut être téléchargé ici.
Au plaisir de vous revoir à cette occasion,
Victor,
pour l’équipe du CREM
Présentation
Avec Richard Kent Wolf (Professor of Music and South Asian studies, université de Harvard)
Discussion animée par Jonathan Larcher (Cinéaste et anthropologue, HAR / UPN)
Two Poets and a River (2021, 75 mn)Using the Oxus river as a topos, this film explores themes of love and loss through the lives and musical poetry of two Wakhi musicians: Qurbonsho in Tajikistan and Daulatsho in Afghanistan. These two poet-singers share a common language and faith yet remain separated by vicissitudes of the 19th c. Great Game in Central Asia, whereby the Wakhan homeland of the Wakhi people became a buffer zone between Russia and the British Empire. The river Oxus, running right through the center of Wakhan, demarcated this zone. After the USSR and Afghanistan shored up their boundaries circa 1930, the communities on each side of the river became firmly severed from one another. The condition of being separated by a river grounds the poets’ discussions of love and loss in their own lives as well as in their musical arts. The film was shot and produced over 2.5 years (2012-2020) with the editorial collaboration of both Qurbonsho and Daulatsho, who narrate the film in Wakhi, Tajik and Dari.
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Solar Light (work in progress, ca. 25mn)
The film documents Kota reflections on a project to introduce solar powered lights into the Kota village of Kolmel in 1992, and in the process, the author’s own research and relationship with the Kota people over the past 36 years.