Author: Lotus Films

“Justine” at Cinema and Human Rights Day, Saturday 14th March 2015 10:00

Justine will be screening, along with a discussion chaired by Dr Jacqueline Maingard, University of Bristol, with Pratap Rughani, director, Iris Wakulenko, sound recordist and Kate Adams, the director of Project Art Works about the issues which making the film raised in relation to human rights. The event is free but registration is essential at Eventbrite:
Cinema and Human Rights Day
The Birkbeck Institute of the Moving Image

Saturday 14th March, 2015, 10:00
Birkbeck Gordon Square Cinema
43 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0PD

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Photo: Chryssa Panoussiadou, wwamc

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Staging Disorder, Tuesday 27 January 2016

‘Staging Disorder’ is an exhibition of photography, sound and moving image exploring the contemporary representation of the real in relation to modern conflict.

The show coincides with a symposium from 2-6pm on Tuesday 27 January in the Main Lecture Theatre, LCC, University of the Arts London, featuring speakers Sarah Pickering, Beate Geissler (Geissler/Sann), Alexandra Stara, Paul Lowe, Jennifer Good, Paul Tebbs, Pratap Rughani, Cathy Lane and Angus Carlyle.

There is a book launch at 6pm of the publication ‘Staging Disorder’ by Black Dog Publishing, co-edited by Christopher Stewart and Esther Teichmann.

Staging Disorder Book

“Justine” screening at the London Short Film Festival 18 January 2015

Q & A with director Pratap Rughani following screening of Justine.

New Shorts: DOCS: Long(er) Docs and filmmaker Q&As.
Sun 18 Jan 15:30 Hackney Picturehouse, London.

London Short Film Festival

Visible Evidence XXI, the annual conference on documentary film, New Delhi, India, Dec 11- 14th, 2014

Chair: Kaushik Bhaumik
From Collaboration to Exploitation?
Pratap Rughani, University of the Arts London, UK
Collaboration and Ethics within an Emerging Media Complex
Elizabeth Miller, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada

Visible Evidence XXI Conference Programme

“Justine” to screen at the World Documentary Film & TV Conference 2014

World Doc Film & TV Conference 2014

To contribute to world cinema documentary studies and to film theory/practice debates, the World Documentary Film & TV Conference aims to bring together international scholars and film practitioners. It seeks to critically examine historical and contemporary world documentary films and factual television productions, whose analyses have been developed across many disciplines, but rarely discussed in one place.

http://worlddocumentary.org

New Book Chapter: “Kubrick’s Lens, Dispatches from the Edge” in “Stanley Kubrick: New Perspectives”

Black Dog Publishing KubrickBlack Dog Publishing  release their new volume Stanley Kubrick: New Perspectives , which includes an essay by Pratap Rughani exploring Full Metal Jacket alongside Rughani’s experiences of filming in the civil war in Sierra Leone.

The book is accompanied by an exhibition at WORK gallery in central London.

Stanley Kubrick: New Perspectives Exhibition: 8 August – 27 September 2014, Private View: Thursday 7 August, 6–8pm

"Stanley Kubrick: New perspectives" book launch Jan Harlan & Pratap Rughani

“Stanley Kubrick: New Perspectives” book launch Jan Harlan & Pratap Rughani

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Talk by photographer Paul Lowe, Pratap Rughani & Steve Mepsted with Monica Alcazar-Duarte & Lewis Bush, during Media & Myth: Mass Media and the Vietnam War at Hundred Years Gallery, London E2 8JD

"We Heart" Kubrick book review by Rob Wilkes