Khoj: exploring spaces between art, science

At Khoj, an artists' workshop in Delhi, four artists explored shared spaces between art and science, realms that are often seen as sealed to each other Joanna Hoffman's interest lies in situating life in the workings of the universe. Life was once regarded as the defining feature of the universe. But scientists now believe that life represents a trifle aspect of. Hoffman's sound and video installation at Khoj is an artist's impression of this scientific truism.

Cities as spaces of culture, constraints

Film on world's rarest rhinos

One of the world's rarest rhinos was caught on film for the first time on Borneo island, recently. Malaysian officials of global conservation organisation wwf said the two-minute video, recorded early this year by a camera hidden in the jungle, was the first to capture the behaviour of the elusive two-horned Borneo rhino in the wild. There are only between 25 and 50 of the rhinos left alive in the dense jungles deep in the heart of the Malaysian state of Sabah on Borneo, and the

Documentaries on Colombian Caribbean soon

Conservation Colombia A team of researchers and filmmakers will travel through the Colombian Caribbean from January 2007 to produce documentaries about endangered species and ecosystems. This television project includes the participation of the private channel rcn and Eco Films, Colombia. The team will spend a year in the area collecting material for the documentaries.

Alien waters, photography exhibition

Alien Waters by Ravi Agarwal India International Centre October 24-November 1, 2006

Flowering of scientific research in nineteenth century Calcutta

"Calcutta: A Tradition in Science" directed by R Ramachandran and Dilip Banerjee The efflorescence of scientific research in mid-19th century Calcutta is a matter of lively debate amongst historians and social scientists. The subject is now on a different medium: the documentary. It promises much: most importantly, an immediacy rarely achieved in academic monographs on the interplay of science and politics in colonial India.

Aftershock, rebuliding after Pakistan earthquake

Documentary films on climate change

Climate Change, an Untold Story Producer British High Commission Duration: 52 minutes Consider this visual: an old woman in a village in coastal Orissa is looking far ahead at a silvery sheet of water -- the Bay of Bengal -- trying to figure out where her home was. This is actually a scene from Climate's First Orphans, one of the four short films on the impact of climate change and global warming in India produced by the British High Commission.

Documentary on post-tsunami situation in Sri Lanka

From Dust produced and directed by Dhruv Dhawan 56 minutes

Australian documentary depicts role reversal in a satire on colonisation

Race Australia Imagine what it would be like if aboriginal settlers arrived to settle a continent inhabited by Caucasian people? In 1788, the settlers of Caucasian origin arrived in Botany Bay to begin the process of white colonisation of Australia. But in Babakiueria, a popular Australian documentary now available in dvd format, the roles are reversed in a satire on colonisation.