Canceled Event
A Rifle and a Bag

Part of First Look 2020
Sunday, March 15, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room

Please note: This event has been canceled. Click here for more information.

Please note: Cristina HaneČ™ and Isabella Rinaldi will no longer be attending due to travel issues

Dir. NoCut Film Collective: Cristina HaneČ™, Isabella Rinaldi, Arya Rothe. India, Romania, Italy, Qatar. 2020, 89 mins. In Gondi, Madiya, Hindi with English subtitles. On the outskirts of the jungle, the precarious existence of a young family of ex-revolutionaries, pardoned and resettled under a government surrender policy for Naxalites (Maoists), reveals itself gradually, by day and night, in everyday scenes captured at a rigorously maintained and patiently held distance. Refusing to conceal the limits of observational cinema in the face of invisible structures of oppression, the NoCut Film Collective offers no commentary on the image, no expository interviews or rhetorical interventions. Rather, placing pointed emphasis on setting and situation over action, they abide silently by their subjects Somi, her husband Sukhram, and their children, as they endure coerced changes of status, security, and selfhood. Bright Future Award Honourable Mention at International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020. U.S. Premiere

Tickets: $15 ($11 seniors & students / $9 youth ages 3–17 / free for Museum members). (Members may contact [email protected] with questions regarding online reservations.)

View the Museum’s ticketing policy here. For more information on membership and to join online, visit our membership page.