{"id":860,"date":"2021-05-04T15:56:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T15:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/?p=860"},"modified":"2021-05-04T15:58:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T15:58:01","slug":"saf-deptford-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/2021\/05\/04\/saf-deptford-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"SAF + Deptford Cinema collaborate to screen &#8216;Red Ant Dream&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-862\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/05\/1stpictureforShuddhasarticle-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/05\/1stpictureforShuddhasarticle-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/05\/1stpictureforShuddhasarticle-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/05\/1stpictureforShuddhasarticle-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/05\/1stpictureforShuddhasarticle-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/05\/1stpictureforShuddhasarticle-1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">In December 2020\/January 2021, the QMUL South Asia Forum collaborated with the South London-based Deptford Cinema to screen Sanjay Kak\u2019s 2013 film on the life of revolutionary possibility in India, <i class=\"\">Red Ant Dream<\/i>. Documenting contemporary struggles against the state, from Bastar to the Niyamgiri Hills to Punjab, the film is a gripping portrait of India\u2019s twenty-first century. Though filmed in the early 2010s, the topic resonated powerfully with ongoing political struggles in 2020\/21 India, when mass protests by farmers surrounded the capital in New Delhi, opposing government attempts to increase the power of private corporations in the agricultural industry, amongst other demands.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>While the screenings finished in early January, several resources from the collaboration are still available online:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Sanjay Kak joined Pragya Dhital (School of English and Drama, QMUL) and Chris Moffat (School of History, QMUL) for <a href=\"https:\/\/deptfordcinema.org\/podcast-episodes\/ep14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an episode of the Deptford Cinema podcast, which you can listen to by clicking here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>On the Deptford Cinema Journal, a short essay by the artist and writer Shuddhabrata Sengupta, \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/deptfordcinema.org\/journal-posts\/2020\/12\/14\/redantdream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Footage for a Film Without End<\/a>\u2019, reflects on the film and Sanjay Kak\u2019s approach to the documentary form:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-863\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/05\/20201214_SAF_Red_Ant_Dream-724x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/05\/20201214_SAF_Red_Ant_Dream-724x1024.png 724w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/05\/20201214_SAF_Red_Ant_Dream-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/05\/20201214_SAF_Red_Ant_Dream-768x1086.png 768w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/05\/20201214_SAF_Red_Ant_Dream-1086x1536.png 1086w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/05\/20201214_SAF_Red_Ant_Dream.png 1270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-862\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/05\/1stpictureforShuddhasarticle-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/05\/1stpictureforShuddhasarticle-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/05\/1stpictureforShuddhasarticle-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/05\/1stpictureforShuddhasarticle-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/05\/1stpictureforShuddhasarticle-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/05\/1stpictureforShuddhasarticle-1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on SAF&#8217;s December 2020\/January 2021 collaboration with Deptford Cinema to screen Sanjay Kak&#8217;s 2013 film\u00a0<em>Red Ant Dream<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/2021\/05\/04\/saf-deptford-cinema\/\">Click the news item<\/a> for links to a podcast with Sanjay Kak, Pragya Dhital and Chris Moffat, and a special essay by Shuddhabrata Sengupta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":865,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}