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 urban scapes are her chosen areas of work. Her films have been screened widely in film festivals and art events. Several international film festivals have held retrospective shows of her films and some of the 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 has received HIVOS culture award for best practices in Asia. Her last film 7 Islands and a Metro has the distinction to be the first Indian non-fiction film to be commercially released. Madhusree Dutta is the executive director of Majlis, a centre for rights discourse and interdisciplinary arts initiatives in Mumbai, India. The centre is engaged in campaigning for cultural literacy and cultural plurality, facilitating interfaces among practices of different disciplines and genres, and producing plays, films and multidisciplinary public arts. Madhusree has designed a number of pedagogical courses on multiculturalism both for social movements and academic institutions. She has also curated and coordinated several art and cultural festivals, among others, Expressions, the first womens arts festival in India in 1990; India Sabka, a youth festival on multiculturalism in 2002; Impot Export, cultural transfer between India and 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 for Project Cinema City: Research Art and Documentary Practices. The project has been premiered at Forum Expanded, Berlinale 2010 as part of the 60th anniversary of the film festival. The Cinema City project 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 essays published in 1994; Sites and Practices: an exercise in cultural pedagogy, 2007. In May 2012 she has published dates. sites: Project Cinema City Bombay / Mumbai, an illustrated Timeline of the 20th 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 of Womens Studies, Jadavpur University, Calcutta in 2009; Centre for South Asia Studies, University of California, Berkley in 2007; English Department, Central University Hyderabad in 2007.