Anand Patwardhan: Ways of Struggle
December 13, 2019–February 16, 2020
Leslie and Brad Bucher Gallery, Glassell School of Art
• Core Program Lecture: Anand Patwardhan
Thursday, December 12, 7 p.m.
Favrot Auditorium, Glassell School of Art
• Opening Reception + Film Screening: “In the Name of God” / Q&A with Anand Patwardhan
Friday, December 13, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Favrot Auditorium, Glassell School of Art
• Film Screening: “Reason” / Introduction by Anand Patwardhan
Saturday, December 14, 1 p.m.
Brown Auditorium Theater, MFAH
For more info: MFAH – Anand Patwardhan
Anand Patwardhan: Ways of Struggle surveys four decades of filmmaking by one of the world’s foremost documentarians and one of contemporary cinema’s most singular voices. Since the 1970s, Anand Patwardhan has been making committed, intimate portraits of Indian movements for social justice.
Following the destruction of Ayodhya’s Babri Mosque in 1992, Patwardhan (born 1950) began chronicling the rise of Hindu nationalism, which has attained global relevance. Patwardhan’s films offer an invaluable portrait of this moment, which Indian writer Pankaj Mishra has dubbed “the age of anger.” By bringing together the full scope of Patwardhan’s work—rarely seen in the United States—Ways of Struggle contrasts the worlds of left and right political feeling, offering an oblique history of the present.
