Friday, September 29 at 5:00 PM, 6:00 PM, and 7:00 PM — Chicago Cultural Center (Claudia Cassidy Theatre – 2nd floor)
Tickets: FREE
THREE FILMS BY GAUTAM VALLURI
Over the past few years, filmmaker Gautam Valluri has produced a small oeuvre of experimental 16mm films exploring the tombs, courts, and mosques of Hyderabad, the city where he grew up. With their abruptly shifting soundscapes and destabilizing optical printer work, the three films in this program present these palatial wonders as protagonists in their own centuries-running psychodramas, preserved by the whims of history to loom monolithic over the present. Now residing in France, Valluri is a member of the Paris-based artist film lab L’Abominable, where much of the printing work for these films was accomplished. This program features the following shorts, all screening in Chicago for the first time in 16mm: Midnight Orange (2018, 11 min.), Durbaar (2019, 9 min.), and ul-Umra (2022, 8 min.).
Approx. 30 min. • 16mm from Gautam Valluri
This program is FREE and will screen three times at the Chicago Cultural Center in the Claudia Cassidy Theater (2nd floor) as part of the Chicago Cultural Center Open House and the World Music Festival Ragamala Mash Up.
NEXT UP: Five Films by Fred Camper on Friday, October 6 at the Film Studies Center
