PARTNERS IN CRIME SCREENING MAY 31, 6 PM, BANDRA


 

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A rollicking trip through the grey worlds of copyright, art and the market in a story about love, money and crime.

 

WHERE: St. Paul’s Academy of Education, Alberione Hall, Opp Duorello Convent, Bandra (W)

WHEN: Wednesday, May 31, 6 pm

 

 

ABOUT THE FILM

 

Who owns a song – the person who made it or the person who paid for it? Are those who download for free living out a brand new cultural freedom – or are they criminals? Is piracy organized crime or class struggle? Are alternative artists who want to hold rights over their art and go it alone in the market, visionaries or nutcases? Is the fine line between plagiarism and inspiration a cop-out or a whole other way of looking at the fluid nature of authorship? What are the ethics of art in a digital era?

 

Full of wicked irony, great music and thorny questions Partners in Crime meets metal heads, folklorists, music archivists, anti-piracy fanatics, smooth street salesman, media moguls, lobbyists, monetizers, downloaders, uploaders, the biggest hit song of 2010 and the small time nautanki singer whose song it was inspired by – to explores these questions of art, ethics and money in digital times

 

Featuring

Vijay Dandetha, Thermal and a Quarter, Demonic Resurrection, Pete Lockett, itwofs.com, Scribe, Rampat Harami & Rani Bala, Ram Sampat, Jumma Khan, Syed Mohammed Irfan and others.

 

Credits
Director: Paromita Vohra, Producer: Magic Lantern Foundation
Camera: Shanti Bhushan, Bakul Sharma Editing:Rikhav Desai

Sound: Asheesh Pandya, Chris Burchell, Gissy Michael 

 

THE SCREENING IS ORGANISED BY THE  BRIEF ENCOUNTERS FILM CLUB

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