Film Screening and Discussion with Director Rana Ghose
On 16 August, join us for an evening of music documentary screenings, sonic explorations, discussion and food with filmmaker Rana Ghose.
Take It In Blood Canada/India 2011, 47 min
In his documentary, Rana Ghose examines the struggle for independence in Kashmir through the lens of hiphop. Roushan Illahi, the rapper known by the stage name MC Kash, meets Parveena Ahanger, who founded the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons after her son disappeared in 1990. Illahi meets other veterans of the pro-independence movement, such as another mother whose son vanished years ago, and former militants. Over the course of doing so, Illahi, who raps in English, is inspired to write the titular song for Ahanger.
Bass Boss Canada/UK/India 2024, 17 min
Rana Ghose investigates Dek Bass, an often overwhelming form of extreme bass music unique to West Bengal and sets out to meet its elusive leading light DJ Khobir. Overwhelming, aggressive, and prone to virulent fandom in his region, this form of sonic expression and assertion is of its own genesis. There is no reference to Jamaican sound system culture within. It was rendered pure and unadulterated from the mind of one person: DJ Khobir.
About the filmmaker:
Rana Ghose has spent over a decade not only observing the rapid changes occurring across the economic and cultural landscape in India, but engaging directly within. His agency, REProduce Artists, has served as the de facto platform for musical expression outside the imagined confines of the commercial market in that country. These two films explore two such authors.
There will be food at the event cooked by Rana Ghose and shamsisout