Bombay and Berlin; fast cars and films ... interesting on-screen encounters!
German filmmaker and curator, Dorothee Wenner is the delegate for films from India for both the Berlinale and the Dubai International Film Festival. This film expert will be in Bangalore briefly and we are happy to announce a Public Screening + Discussion, as part of our Art InSight: Meet-the-Curator series.
At "The International Arena", Dorothee Wenner will screen her own film "Star Biz" and an excerpt from "Unser Ausland 10 Experts from 10 Countries". The screenings will be followed by interaction with Ms. Wenner.
Star Biz
Merle Kröger and Dorothee Wenner, 82 min., Germany 2005 Engl./German/Hindi, Engl. Subtitles
Photography: Bernd Meiners
Editing: Merle Kröger
Music: Philip Scheffner
Sound: Pascal Capitolin
Germans who spend time in India are surprisingly often approached to talk about 'the Mercedes' - even when the traveller is quite ignorant about cars and often not as well informed about the issue as the interlocutor from the other end of the world. As much as this may please the car company in Sindelfingen - the consequences and implications of this associative link are too labyrinthine and complex to be dealt with simply looking at the number of cars sold in the respective countries.
This is precisely the subject of the documentary Star Biz. Using the Mercedes as a 'symbol', this hyper-realistic documentary examines the process of cultural appropriation of Western consumer and luxury goods in India. The German car industry and the Indian film industry meet in the heat of Bombay traffic and in the cold of a Berlin winter: the entertaining, critical and insightful encounter of two giants.
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