Film Screenings
Daily Tours
Join museum educators for interactive discussions of current exhibitions. Daily at 11 am and 1 pm.
Films
screenings
are free with museum admission unless otherwise indicated and are shown in the New
Media Theater in the Sackler Center for Arts Education.
Shumona Goel and Shai Heredia, I am micro, 2011. 35 mm black-and-white film with sound, 15 min., 46 sec. Courtesy the artists
I am micro, 2011
Daily, March 2–June 6
Monday–Wednesday:
11 am and 12, 2, 3, 4, and 5 pm
Friday–Sunday: 3, 4, and 5 pm
Directed by Shumona Goel and Shai Heredia (India)
15 min., 46 sec., 35 mm, black and white
I am micro is a film that celebrates collaboration and small-scale independent filmmaking through a combination of documentary and visual poetry. Images are culled from two different sources—a shoot around a defunct Kolkata-based factory for optomechanical and optoelectronic instruments and behind-the-scenes footage from the set of a new work by filmmaker Ashim Ahluwalia—and overlaid with a voice-over by director and screenwriter Kamal Swaroop, whose debut film, Om Dar-B-Dar (1988), initially earned wide acclaim but quickly fell into obscurity.
FREE with museum admission.
Filmmakers Goel and Heredia will be available for questions after the 12 pm screening on March 7.
Film screenings are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.