Thursday, August 9, 2012

me in newspaper


me in newspaper !



Ravi Shekhar for six months in the Altmark / premiere on 16 September in the movie theater


From Mumbai to Salzwedel "culture shock" suggests the film shoot

08/09/2012 04:19 clock

By Alexander Walter


Ravi Shekhar is for six months in Salzwedel scholarship houseguest.  With sequences from the Altmark here he turns a movie about themselves


Ravi Shekhar is for six months in Salzwedel scholarship houseguest. With sequences from the Altmark here he turns a movie about yourself | Photo: Alexander Walter
He comes from Mumbai, India. In Salzwedel turns Ravi Shekhar a film about the Altmark. Primarily the work is an exploration of yourself
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Salzwedel was l When Ravi Shekhar at Easter 2007 by the Salzwedel city, he could not believe it: roads and lanes were measured by Indian standards, such as deserted. Only a few people walked through the pedestrian zone. "For me it was a culture shock," says the native of the 12-million-person metropolis of Mumbai artists. At home in his native one could hardly escape the crowds. "There can only be found very difficult a piece of solitude."
During this first encounter with Salzwedel he was thinking about it, to produce in this peaceful place for him as a movie, says the 53-year-old. Only when a friend gave him the idea to apply for a place in Salzwedel residential building, however, took this idea to specific traits. After his application was Shekhar in the spring of this year the award for his project. At the invitation of the house and Salzwedel grantees funded by Christa Maria Meyer-grant from the Arts Foundation of Saxony-Anhalt, the trained photographer now spends six months in the Jeetzestadt.
The film, which turns the Indians are here, but not by Salzwedel, Altmark and as such, even if occurring landscape and people of the region. "It's a movie about me, a kind of self portrait," says the artist. A self-portrait of an Indian city dwellers, just turned in Salzwedel? There are contradictions such as these, would build on the Shekhar with his production.
The film tells about the journey (s) by the artist, the spatial and in a biographical sense. Beginning with scenes from his native city of Varanasi on the Ganges funeral, Shekhar are landscapes, historical events and people who have met him space. Not least of those he met during his stay in Salzwedel and the Altmark.
On display here are some excerpts from the wine festival Salzwedel, Salzwedel of the Peace Race, or concerts in Salzwedel Hanseat. Over about 60 minutes building block by building block an image of the artist's life and his vision created the world, which, the longer the film, becoming richer and more sophisticated.
The aim of the production is there to "disrupt" the often gridlocked world view of people and to expand, says Ravi Shekhar. "It is only through disruptions and changes are possible."
So go to him about the realization that no one stands alone, but always developed in response to external conditions, and other people.
"If you want to know a person really, meet his friends."
An old adage that bring good to the point: "If you want to know a person really, meet his friends," says the 53-year-old. This wisdom is the reason why he, above all let others come to speak in his film. And yet another factory Shekhars wisdom lies at the bottom: "If you want to read books, travel," they say. Break through the old world, travel pictures, will be supplemented and extended. "In India I'm just an artist, here I am suddenly the Indians, and thus representative of my culture," says Shekhar. Through such experiences they would be aware of their own origin and ways of thinking.
One of the most important experience in the life of the Indian Ravi Shekhar was always his first visit to Salzwedel. From experiences like this and its importance for the development of the people is his film.
He can be seen on Sunday evening, 16 September, in Salzwedel movie palace. Ravi Shekhar is already grateful for the time in Salzwedel. "I am very happy that I can make this film here," he says. "Talking to other people is something magical."

(pls forgive google translation if you manage to read the whole article :)

Thursday, August 2, 2012

a small film- Friends in Hilmsen


Yesterday I was invited with a group of artist friends in Hilmsen, Germany. They were here for an artist residency from Texas. Along with my German friends I reached early. Just after returning from the dinner , I decided to make a small video out of it. And this is here.