{"id":2156,"date":"2017-02-15T16:14:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T16:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/harrington-draft\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2017-02-15T16:14:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T16:14:14","slug":"ashish-chadha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/news\/faculty-profile\/2017\/02\/15\/ashish-chadha\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashish Chadha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ashish Chadha<\/strong> has been making films for decades, but they are not the kind you might see at, say, a Showcase cinema. Chadha\u2019s films are experimental or, as one critic puts it, \u201cdeliberately incomprehensible,\u201d yet \u201cvisually seductive.\u201d They explore themes of death, time, and ritual rooted in the religion, history, and philosophy of India, where he grew up.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, they\u2019ve won many&nbsp;international awards. Chadha\u2019s most recent film, <em>Aapothkalin Trikalika<\/em>, or <em>The Kali of Emergency<\/em>, hit the jackpot when it was recently accepted into one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world, the 67<sup>th<\/sup> Berlin International Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>The film, which took seven years to make, probes our turbulent and highly divisive world\u2014a society Chadha believes is in a perpetual state of emergency, or despair. Remarkably, he shot the movie in India without a script, used non-professional or local actors, and barely spent any money.<\/p>\n<p>At URI, Chadha teaches film production and critical and historical studies of film as an art form. He encourages his students to believe in their imagination and muster the courage to make films outside corporate entertainment-based cinema. \u201cExperimental filmmaking is a deep and rigorous creative process,\u201d he says. \u201cIt teaches students to be critical, creative and independent\u2014artistically, politically and intellectually.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ashish Chadha<\/strong> has been making films for decades, but they are not the kind you might see at, say, a Showcase cinema. Chadha\u2019s films are experimental or, as one critic puts it, \u201cdeliberately incomprehensible,\u201d yet \u201cvisually seductive.\u201d They explore themes of death, time, and ritual rooted in the religion, history, and philosophy of India, where he grew up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1338,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-profile"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/harrington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}