Abhivyakti 2008
Patna, Bihar 11 ,12, 13 April
The 8th Ravi Bharati Video Festival
Since the early 1990’s when VHS was a new medium, and the video cassette recorder was making its way into middle class homes throughout the country, Ravi Bharati organised the first All Bihar VHS video festival to encourage local video-film makers in the new medium.
The idea was to enlist camcorder in the cause of social communication; to use the relatively low-cost VHS as an alternative to the expensive, establishment-oriented ‘mainstream’ mass-communication machine.
Today, with computers and convergence media bringing down costs still further, the role of video as a narrator of the realities of the marginalised, the displaced, and the alternative, is evident to many.
Every two years, Ravi Bharati celebrates this with a three day alternative low-cost festival, inviting videos made by enthusiasts, students, children, idealists, social workers, educationists, documentary film makers and assorted activists. In 2004, “Abhivyakti”, the word for expression in Hindi has been chosen as the name of the festival. The films are intended to provoke discussions and ideas, and there is time for discussion after each film
The 8th Ravi Bharati Video Festival
Since the early 1990’s when VHS was a new medium, and the video cassette recorder was making its way into middle class homes throughout the country, Ravi Bharati organised the first All Bihar VHS video festival to encourage local video-film makers in the new medium.
The idea was to enlist camcorder in the cause of social communication; to use the relatively low-cost VHS as an alternative to the expensive, establishment-oriented ‘mainstream’ mass-communication machine.
Today, with computers and convergence media bringing down costs still further, the role of video as a narrator of the realities of the marginalised, the displaced, and the alternative, is evident to many.
Every two years, Ravi Bharati celebrates this with a three day alternative low-cost festival, inviting videos made by enthusiasts, students, children, idealists, social workers, educationists, documentary film makers and assorted activists. In 2004, “Abhivyakti”, the word for expression in Hindi has been chosen as the name of the festival. The films are intended to provoke discussions and ideas, and there is time for discussion after each film
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