A talk on film will be held on Nov 24 at ULAB campus B seminar room from 10:00am to 12:00pm. Mr. Anis Pervez, associate professor of MSJ, is the key speaker.

Abstract of his talk:: Qualitative immediacy: the inherent problem of Cinema
 
Cinema, the mechanical reproduction of life and living in moving image, is one of the most popular media that have harnessed human’s observation of their experience. Cinema is characterized by its qualitative immediacy that wears away the distance between life and its reproduction. It is equally true that the qualitative immediacy is what constraints cinema from transcending popular expectation. Cinema suffers from a tension between catering to people’s habitual perception and cinema’s power to breaking its own form, which is not the case with theatre, paining and other plastic arts.  However, cinema did not cease to working on its form. Rather, with the help of progressive technology and creative endeavor, cinema is constantly reproducing itself by undoing, redoing and reconfiguring its form.