North-Eastern Hill University



Programme for the Tribal Animation Film Festival – 3-day event at NEHU, Shillong

1st March 2019

9.30am -10.30am Screenings of Tribal Animation Films from the World: India

The Tallest Story Competition (West Highland Animation, 26 min)

10.30am -11.30am Inauguration, Cultural Performance, Welcome by Chief Guest and Keynote Address by Prof. Sujata Miri: Tribal, Adivasi and Indigenous Knowledge

11.30am -12.00pm Tea and Exhibition Opening (Photographs from NE India by Verrier Elwin) presented by Ashok Elwin

12.00pm -1.00pm Opening screening: Tribal Animation Films from India (presented by Saheb Ram Tudu: Tales of the Tribes (Adivasi Arts Trust, 38 min); Nokpokliba (Meren Imchen, 8’.38”), Naayo (Saheb Tudu, 6’.28”), Mundari Srishtikatha, (Tuhin Paul and Meghnath Akhra, 8’.35”)

1.00pm - 2.00pm Lunch and Exhibition Opening: Living Stories (United World Institute of Design)

2.00pm - 3.00pm Workshop: Storytelling by local storytellers (Wancho (Ngamchai Wangsa and Banwang Losu), Khasi (Prit Makri) Garo (Bimsing Sangma), Chaired by Prof. Desmond Kharmawphlang

3.00pm - 3.30pm Presentation: Contemporizing Tribal Cultures in Media Representation in North East India, Moji Riba (Centre for Cultural Research and Documentation, Arunachal Pradesh)

3.30pm - 4.30pm Panel Discussion: Film-makers and Anthropologists. Indigenous Media, Self determination and Cultural activism: (TB Subba (Chair), Subhadra Channa, Rana Gyati, Hage Bida, Meghnath Akhra, Lucy Zehol)

4.30pm - 5.00pm Tea

5.00pm - 7.00pm Screenings of Tribal Animation Films from the World:

Australia and India

Dust Echoes (Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1hr)

U syiem (Ban Casper Mawlong, Meghalaya,1hr 20 min)

Journey to Nagaland (Aditi Chitre, 26 min)

7.00pm - 8.00pm Late Screening: The Journey of the Tales of the Tribes (Tara Douglas, 52 min)

2nd March 2019

9.30am -10.30am Screening: Tribal Animation Films from around the World

North America

Sun and the Great Frog (Joseph Erb, 4’37”)

Uktena and Thunder (Joseph Erb 8’.48”)

We Prayed In Water (Joseph Erb, 4’.47”)

How Wesakechak Got His Name (Gregory Coyes) (13 min)

Wesakechak and The Medicine (Gregory Coyes) (13 min)

10.30pm -11.30am Keynote Address: Experimental Approaches to Indian Animation

Dr Nina Sabnani, (IDC, Mumbai)

11.30am -12.00pm Tea

12.00pm -12.30pm Keeping Folklore Alive and Animated in Scotland, Leslie Mackenzie (West Highland Animation)

12.30pm -1.00pm Lunch

1.00pm - 2.00pm Screening: Films by independent artists

Free Radicals (Len Lye, 5 min)

The Bead Game (Ishu Patel, 5’.48”)

How Mermaids Breed (Joan Ashworth, 9’.43”)

Mushroom Thief (Joan Ashworth, 7’.12”)

Two Films About Loneliness (Chris Eales and William Bishop-Stephens, 5’.27”)

The Queen’s Monastery (Emma Calder, 6’.05”)

Boudica A Norfolk Story (Emma Calder, 5’.20”)

Episode 9 Random Person (Quantum cloud) (Emma Calder, 1’.19”)

Everyone is Waiting for Something to Happen (Emma Calder, 7’.38”)

Wounds (2012) (Benjamin Fox, 2’.46”)

BaitBall (Benjamin Fox, 1’.28”)

InterZone (Benjamin Fox, 1’.02”)

Thought Emerging From Matter (Benjamin Fox, 3’.25”)

Time/Space Reflections (Alba Garcia Rivas, (8’14”)

The River (Heeseon Kim, 9 min)

2.00pm - 3.30pm Workshop: Storyboards with Vijay Punia and Wangdan Wangpan

Pixilated Animation (using masks) with Pravesh Hingmang

Screening: Student Animation Films

Srujan (2007 PG batch of Animation from NID, 3’.41”)

Khurpui (2015 PG batch of Animation from NID, 1’.44”), Making of Khurpui, (6’.50”)

Astitva (A Quest) (Sharad Uikey, 5’.08”) (Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute)

Maa tuki (Suchana 4’.10”) (Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute)

Home (students of Yangon Film School, 5 min)

Kayah Lily (students of Yangon Film School, 5 min)

Wave (students of Yangon Film School, 5 min)

Limbo (students of Yangon Film School, 5 min)

The films will be presented by project mentor, Indian animation film maker, Debjani Mukherjee.

3.30pm -4.00pm Tea

4.00pm - 5.30pm Presentation by local film-makers:

20 minutes of films from Sikkim: Pravesh Hingmang

20 min of films from Arunachal Pradesh: Tani Vs Halyanmikhii by Dulley Tamang

15 min presentation: Design, Animation and Production of an Educational Animation film to promote the newly developed Wancho Script, by Wangdan Wangpan and Banwang Losu.

5.30pm - 7.00pm Screening:Tribal Animation Films from around the World

North America

The Owl Who Married a Goose (1974) (Caroline Leaf, 7’.38”)

Ritual Clowns (Victor Masayesva, 18 min)

Four Faces of the Moon (Amanda Strong, 12’.54”)

Flood (Amanda Strong, 4’.31”)

Biidaaban (Amanda Strong, 20’.21”

Little Thunder (Alan Syliboy, 8’14”).

Why the Rabbit Turns White (Gregory Coyes) (13 min)

68 Voices 68 Hearts (Gabriela Badillo) (23 min)

Cry Rock (Banchi Hanuse) (28’43”)

Dinner

8.00pm - 9.30pm Late Screening: the Arctic and Estonia

How Nyanchedo Myniku Taught Man to Fly (8’.39”) (Mikael Korobov)

The Maggot Feeder (Pritt Tender, 15’.28”)

Journey to the Maggot Feeder (Kaie-Ene Rääk/Liivo Niglas (1 hr 7 min)

3rd March 2019

9.30am -10.30am Screening: Tribal Animation Films from the World

Africa

Yarawit Digis (Ezra Wube, 10'.18")

Wenzu  (3' 09") by Ezra Wube 

Le Crapaud Chez ses Beaux-Parents (Jean Michel Kibushi, 8’.15”)

Prince Loseno (Jean Michel Kibushi) (29 min)

10.30am - 11.30am Keynote Address: Sekhar Mukherjee – Teaching animation: all those

years at the National Institute of Design

11.30am -12.00pm Tea

12.00pm - 1.00pm Workshop: Stop-motion animation led by animators

Screening: Cross-cultural student animation

Cartas de la Selva (Letters from the Jungle) (Isabel Herguera, 22’.59”)

Making of the Letters from the Jungle (Isabel Herguera, 10’.26”)

1.00pm - 2.00pm Lunch

2.00pm - 3.00pm Screenings of Tribal Animation Films from around the World:

Australia

The Dreaming (Aboriginal Nations Australia)

Country Lines Archive (Monash University)

Jack and Jones (Jason Japaljarri Woods, 4 min)

3.00pm - 4.00pm Panel Discussion: Film-makers and Anthropologists: Vernacular

animation - World animation (Sekhar Mukherjee (Chair); Nina

Sabnani; Leslie Mackenzie K.K. Chakravarty; Daxin Chhara and Tara Douglas)

4.00pm - 4.30pm Tea and Presentation of work from the workshops

4.30pm -5.30pm Valedictory Session and Thanks

5.30pm - 7.00pm Screenings of Tribal Animation Films from the World: Africa

Yarawit Digis (Ezra Wube, 10'.18")

Wenzu  (3' 09") by Ezra Wube 

Le Crapaud Chez ses Beaux-Parents (Jean Michel Kibushi, 8’.15”)

Prince Loseno (Jean Michel Kibushi) (29 min)

[?] A’rongga is a collective term of Garo origin, that is inclusive of tangible and intangible culture and heritage and it connotes various aspects of the community or a tribe.

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