Sumantra Ghosal, Abhishek Poddar
This event launches MAP’s new series ARTiculate. Directed by well-known filmmaker, Sumantra Ghosal, this series of short films takes a close look at select artworks in the museum’s collections.
The session will premiere three films that deal with select works of Bhupen Khakhar, Mrinalini Mukherjee and Manjit Bawa. The screening will be followed by a discussion between the filmmaker and MAP’s founder-president Abhishek Poddar on the idea behind the series, the filmmaking-process and more.
ARTiculate is a series of short films on selected artworks in the MAP collection. The films hope to engage you into looking deeper into the sometimes curious and often spectacular ways in which art works.
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