Date: 30 May 2026
Time: 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Venue: Room 1, Fourth Floor, KCC
OPEN TO ALL
Madhuja Mukherjee looks back at the critical eye that frames experimental cinema and explores the divergent mediums, forms and practices that shape and reshape the very idea. The talk tabulates a possible history and revisits the Experimental through a gendered lens.
This event is an EAEFF Satellite Programme.
Emami Art Experimental Film Festival (EAEFF) is a platform dedicated to generating and cultivating critical discourses around experimental films, video, and artists’ moving-image practices. The festival employs an expansive format that brings various forms, media, and perspectives engaging with diverse spatial and temporal sensibilities. Through an expansive curatorial framework, EAEFF brings together filmmakers, artists, scholars, and curators to create dialogues around contemporary moving-image cultures and experimental practices. In addition to the festival format, EAEFF extends the engagement through year-long Satellite Programmes comprising screenings, lectures, workshops, masterclasses, and conversations, facilitating a sustained critical exchange and pedagogical interaction.
About the Speaker:
Madhuja Mukherjee is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker and Professor of Film Studies at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She is the artistic director of TENT Biennale Kolkata, a pioneering festival of experimental cinema and new media art. Her research and practice are located at the intersection of material cultures, archives, media archaeology and technologies of artistic work. She has done several group shows and solos, including at the Victoria Memorial Museum, Kolkata (2022). Madhuja adapted Kangal Malsat as an avant-garde graphic novel (2013), and co-wrote the globally-acclaimed film Qissa (2013). Feature films directed by her premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (‘Carnival’, 2012) and the Busan International Film Festival (‘Deep6’, 2021). Madhuja has published her academic research extensively, and 'An Archaeology of Jugaad in Films' is her forthcoming book.
