[Poster for the screening of Khayal Darpan at de Seve Cinema, Montreal, Quebec]

Creator: Kabir Cultural Centre

2007-01-12

Poster advertising the screening of Yousuf Saeed's 2007 documentary Khayal Darpan (Mirror of Imagination) at de Seve Cinema, Montreal, Quebec. Khayal Darpan is a documentary film which extensively covers the history of Pakistan's classical music traditions and how they relate to matters of culture, nationality and religion. Yousuf Saeed is an independent filmmaker, researcher and designer based in India. He has produced documentary films and writings on the shared art and cultural traditions of South Asia since 1990.

Film is in Urdu with English Subtitles. 105 mins. Screening was followed by a panel discussion. "In 2005, Yousuf Saeed, a filmmaker from Delhi, spent more than 6 months in Pakistan as part of a research fellowship where he surveyed the development of classical music traditions in Pakistan after 1947. After interviewing musicians and scholars, attending music concerts, and observing the teaching of music in Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad, Yousuf not only managed to document some of the surviving practitioners and patrons of art music, but also raised many vital questions about cultural identity, nationalism, legitimacy of music in Islam, Pakistan's popular culture and its affairs with India, and the survival of classical music itself in South Asia. The study resulted in a poignant and thought-provoking documentary film, featuring well-known and not so well-known but talented musicians of Pakistan." - Kabir Cultural Centre "Yousuf Saeed is an independent filmmaker, researcher and designer based in India" -http://www.yousufsaeed.com/. "Yousuf Saeed is an independent filmmaker, scholar and archivist based in New Delhi, producing documentary films and writings on shared art and cultural traditions of South Asia since 1990. His films like Basant (1997), Sufi Sama (1998), and Khusrau Darya Prem ka (2015) feature Indo-Persian music and literary heritage. Yousuf's feature-length documentary Khayal Darpan (2006) on the classical music tradition in Pakistan has been screened worldwide. He has also been working on South Asia's popular culture in areas like the Urdu language, religious art and printed ephemera through writings, web projects and academic events. Yousuf is the project director of Tasveer Ghar, a digital archive of South Asia's popular visual culture. Yousuf has received support from IFA twice in the past for his work on Urdu popular culture in India." -Ihttps://indiaifa.org/grants-projects/yousuf-saeed-3.html. *Date listed refers to date of performance.

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