7/31/2019 Madhusree Dutta - Academy member of the Academy of the Arts of the World (Cologne)

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Akademie der Knste der Welt / Kln

Curriculum Vitae

Madhusree Dutta

Filmmaker, curator and pedagogue

Madhusree Dutta has been making nonfiction films since 1993. Gender, citizenship and urbanscapes are her chosen areas of work. Her films have been screened widely in film festivals and artevents. Several international film festivals have held retrospective shows of her films and some ofthe films are also taught as texts in university departments and film schools. She has also served

as jury member in several international film festivals.She has received multiple national and international awards for her films. She has also received

several citizens honours for her contribution in the area of art and culture. In 2005 Madhusree hasreceived HIVOS culture award for best practices in Asia. Her last film 7 Islands and a Metro hasthe distinction to be the first Indian non-fiction film to be commercially released.Madhusree Dutta is the executive director ofMajlis, a centre for rights discourse and inter-disciplinary arts initiatives in Mumbai, India. The centre is engaged in campaigning for cultural

literacy and cultural plurality, facilitating interfaces among practices of different disciplines andgenres, and producing plays, films and multidisciplinary public arts.

Madhusree has designed a number of pedagogical courses on multiculturalism both for socialmovements and academic institutions. She has also curated and coordinated several art andcultural festivals, among others, Expressions, the first womens arts festival in India in 1990; IndiaSabka, a youth festival on multiculturalism in 2002; Impot Export, cultural transfer between Indiaand German speaking Europe in 2005; Culture@WSF, the art component for the World Social

Forum, 2004, Moving People: a multi-disciplinary art interface between Africa and Asia in Nairobi,2007. Currently she is working in the capacity of creative direct and curator forProject CinemaCity: Research Art and Documentary Practices. The project has been premiered at ForumExpanded, Berlinale 2010 as part of the 60th anniversary of the film festival. The Cinema Cityproject enquires into the various urban configurations that produce cinema at an industrial scale in

the city of Bombay / Mumbai.Madhusree has co-edited The Nation, The State and Indian Identity, an anthology of essayspublished in 1994; Sites and Practices: an exercise in cultural pedagogy, 2007. In May 2012 shehas published dates. sites: Project Cinema City Bombay / Mumbai, an illustrated Timeline of the20th century. Forthcoming Publication Cinema City: Documents, co-edited with Kaushik Bahumik

and Rohan Shivkumar, Tulika Books, India. She has also contributed in academic and popular

journals on topic ranging from documentary studies, cultural citizenship and urban issues.Visiting Fellowship / Residency: Arsenal Institute of Film and Video Arts, Berlin in 2011; School ofWomens Studies, Jadavpur University, Calcutta in 2009; Centre for South Asia Studies, Universityof California, Berkley in 2007; English Department, Central University Hyderabad in 2007.