Screening of “About Elsewhere” and “Moustaches Unlimited” on 27th August ‘08

Adda presents a screening of two documentaries on Wednesday, 27th August ‘08 at the Conference Hall, Tata Institute of Social Sciences.

About Elsewhere (29 min)
A film by Priya Sen

The film will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker, Priya Sen.

Moustaches Unlimited (30min)
A film by Vasudha Joshi

About Elsewhere is a film that seeks to foreground the impossibility of fixing notions of sexuality through ideas of “identity” and “language”. As the film moves through various worlds the filmmaker has inhabited, it suggests a self in constant formation; one that constructs itself from parts and places that are in themselves, fragments of memory and experience. The film uses the metaphor of a “shell” as a place of repose and withdrawal from which it is possible to emerge. Uniquely, and with all the flair and multiplicity that accompanies a way of being.

Moustaches Unlimited is a charming, irreverent documentary film. The film is an assemblage of interviews, opinions, poetry and story that explores the stubborn legacy and allure of the eponymous facial feature of men and some intrepid women. Somehow both celebratory and satirical, Moustaches’ exploration of the male body politics is amusingly illuminating. It will take the bushiest of moustaches to hide the grins that this film elicits from its audience.