ಗಾಳಿಬೀಜ Gaalibeeja 

Wind Seed

Venkatesh Prasad and Bhanu Prakash Chandra

Mohammed Rizwan

Amaresh Bijjal

Prateet Rajendra 

Mohammed Rizwan

95 minutes | Kanada film | 2015
Written and Directed by Babu Eshwar Prasad
Camera: B R Viswanath
Editor: M N Swamy
Music : Marcus Maeder
Cast: Venkatesh Prasad, Amaresh Bijjal, Mohammed Rizwan,
Bhanu Prakash Chandra, Divya Murthy

About the Film:

The title of the film is Gaalibeeja, which literally translated into English means ‘Wind Seed’. Gaalibeeja is a visually arresting meditation on cinema and modernity. The road is the central protagonist of the film connecting the various characters. The film opens with Prakash, a civil engineer, leaving for a road widening project in an unnamed village. His encounters along the way–a peddler of pirated DVDs who hands him a set of road movies, a farmer at a highway bus stop, and a poster sticker on his bicycle–form the backbone of this idiosyncratic film. While the paths of these diverse characters intersect and interrupt one another, it becomes clear that they each live in a vastly different time and space–one that is shaped by class and access to progress. While paying homage to the likes of Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, and Abbas Kiarostami, Prasad blends social critique with exquisite cinematic form in his take on the “road movie.” The film presents a fragmented narrative through images and soundscapes. The road carries us, connects us, it equally disrupts lives. The film explores this ambivalence and the different temporalities people inhabit.

About the filmmaker :

Babu Eshwar Prasad completed BFA (Painting) from Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat, Bangalore and MFA (Graphics) from M.S.University, Baroda and has held exhibitions since 1996 regularly. Working across media Prasad has been making short videos since 1997 – Gaalibeejais his debut feature film, entirely self‐financed, and is an exploration of the medium of cinema by a contemporary artist. The film was selected for NFDC Film Bazaar Recommendation in the Feature Film Section, Film Bazaar, Goa, 2014 while in rough cut stage. Upon completion it has been shown at 17th Jio MAMI (Mumbai Film Festival) in the India Story Section, 2015, at the Bengaluru International Film Festival in the Asian Cinema Competition, 2016 and 3rd i, San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival, 2016 apart from independent screenings in Delhi, Mysore, Hyderabad, Kochi and Bangalore etc.

Some links:

http://scroll.in/article/763485/gaali‐beeja‐is‐a‐movie‐about‐a‐road‐and‐road‐movies http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/regional/gone‐with‐the‐wind‐3/ http://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art‐and‐culture/on‐the‐record‐life‐on‐the‐road‐2759541/ http://johnyml.blogspot.in/2016/04/road‐to‐redemption‐gaali‐beeja‐of‐babu.html http://www.thirdi.org/event/gaalibeeja‐windseed/

Gaalibeeja (Wind Seed) at

17th Jio MAMI (Mumbai Film Festival) 2015,
Screening details: Sunday, November 1, 2015‐PVR ECX 3, Andheri ‐1:30 PM, Thursday,November 5, 2015 Phoenix 2 ‐4:00 PM ‐Lower Parel

8th Bengaluru International Film Festival, ASIAN CINEMA COMPETITION 2016
Screening details: Monday, February 1, 2016 Inox 2, Mall of Mysore, Mysore‐5:45 pm Tuesday, February 2, 2016 PVR 8, Orion Mall, Bengaluru ‐2:45 pm

3rd i's 14th San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival
Nov 19, 2016, BlueLight Cinemas 5, Cupertino, United States, 12:00 pm

NGMA Bengaluru, in collaboration with Ananya‐Drishya,
Saturday, February 6, 2016, Bengaluru

Dept of Information & Public relations, Mysore in collaboration with Karnataka Chalnachitra Academy And Mysore Film Society
Thursday, February 11, 2016, Mysore

India International Centre , C D Deshmukh auditorium, New Delhi
Tuesday, April 5, 2016, New Delhi

Avani One, Mandalay Hall, Kochi
Thursday, May 19, 2016, Kochi

Kalikote Governament Fine Art College, Odisha
Wednesday, October 5, 2016, Odisha

Mysore Dasra Film Festival
Saturday, October 8, 2016, Mysore

Chitramayi, State Art Gallery, Madhapur, Hyderabad
Wednesday, November 2, 2016, Hyderabad

Venkatappa Art gallery Bengaluru, in collaboration with Ananya‐Drishya,

Thursday, November 24, 2016, 6 pm, Bengaluru

School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium, Jawaharlal University
Friday, January, 13, 2017, 5.30 pm, New Delhi

Kochi‐Muziris Biennale 2016
February, 22, 2017, 6:30 pm. Cabral Yard, Fort Kochi

18th FilmColumbia, Crandell Theatre, Chatham, in northern Columbia County, New York
Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 12:00pm

Whitefield Art Collective
Sunday, March 12, 2017, 6:00 pm, Sky Deck, VR Bengaluru

Maraa - a media and arts collective
Sunday, August, 6, 2017, 6:30 pm · Alternative Law Forum · Bangalore

NGMA Bengaluru, in collaboration with Ananya‐Drishya,
'Memories' - Amaresh U Bijjal Films and Videos made by his friends
Sunday, October 29, 2017, 11.30 am, Bengaluru

Museum K21, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf
June 6, 2018, Düsseldorf

School of Architecture, CHRIST
Thursday, 12th July, 2018.

NIFT, Bengaluru.
Wednesday, 29th August, 2018

Gauhati Artist Guild
Saturday, March 30, 2019