LET’S MEET AT THE MUSEUM!

18.07.2025 FRIDAY 4:30 PM ONWARDS

Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum in collaboration with Centre for Moving Image, Anant National University

presents

A screening and discussion on

At Home Walking, Pavlechi keli Tirth

A film by Rajula Shah

About the film:

This film, depicting the nomads and pilgrims of the highlands in Deccan, India, unfolds to the music of bards and a poetic monologue. With rhythmic shots and the repeated insertion of footage of walking feet, the viewer comes to realize that walking is meditation. The monologue quotes the words of many Indian poets who search for freedom and for the essence of what it means to be alive, depicting a rich world transcending time. This experimental film and its journey of the heart end as an awakening from meditation.

Date: 18 July, 2025 (Friday)

Time: 4:30 PM Onwards

For ages: 18 and above

Venue: Lecture Hall, L D Museum

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About the filmmaker:

Grew up listening to stories, being taught by folk craftsmen, and later studying cinema at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune. She works in the interstice of poetry, cinema & anthropology. Indigenous knowledge systems, performance, practitioners, and changing practices thereof, form the core of her study; emerging through a collaboration with people, their individual histories and environments.

She has been producing, directing, writing, editing and photographing films for over a decade, exploring the boundaries of fiction, non-fiction, art, and new media, and screening widely in festivals, museums, and other forums to critical acclaim. She has received awards for Beyond the Wheel (2005), Word within the Word (2008), ReTold by Loknath (2013) and Jumbled Cans (2014).

She writes fiction and poetry, winning the Gyanpeeth Award for New Writing. She has translated, among others, the eminent social scientist Ela Bhatt and selected letters of Vincent Van Gogh into Hindi. She has been on film award juries, on seminar and conference panels, and she teaches at various film and media schools including the FTII, Pune.

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