{"id":12293,"date":"2011-02-24T22:21:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T22:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12293"},"modified":"2016-09-07T01:40:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T01:40:21","slug":"seven-hours-to-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12293","title":{"rendered":"Seven Hours To Burn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmm.com\/filmcatalog\/pages\/c529.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Seven Hours To Burn<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmm.com\" target=\"_blank\">Women Make Movies<\/a><br \/>\nUSA\/Canada, 1999<br \/>\n9 minutes<br \/>\nColor\/BW, VHS\/16mm<br \/>\nOrder No. W01699<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shantithakur.com\" target=\"_blank\">Shanti Thakur<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmm.com\/filmcatalog\/pages\/c529.shtml\" target=\"_blank_\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wmm.com\/filmcatalog\/imageDownload\/SevenHours_Burn_hires.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A visually expressive personal documentary that explores a family&#8217;s history. Filmmaker Thakur mixes richly abstract filmmaking with disturbing archival war footage to narrate the story of her Danish mother&#8217;s and Indian father&#8217;s experiences. Her mother survives Nazi-occupied Denmark while her father experiences the devastating civil war in India between Hindus and Muslims. Both \u00e9migr\u00e9s to Canada, they meet and marry, linking two parallel wars. Their daughter lyrically turns these two separate histories into a visually rich poem linking past and present in a new singular identity.&#8221; <em>Doubletake Documentary Film Festival Catalogue<\/em><\/p>\n<p>View the trailer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shantithakur.com\/sevenhours.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven Hours To Burn Women Make Movies USA\/Canada, 1999 9 minutes Color\/BW, VHS\/16mm Order No. W01699 Shanti Thakur &#8220;A visually expressive personal documentary that explores a family&#8217;s history. Filmmaker Thakur mixes richly abstract filmmaking with disturbing archival war footage to narrate the story of her Danish mother&#8217;s and Indian father&#8217;s experiences. Her mother survives Nazi-occupied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16,19,8,842,25],"tags":[1798,1351,5522,2526],"class_list":["post-12293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-asia","category-canada","category-media-archive","category-videos","category-women","tag-denmark","tag-india","tag-shanti-thakur","tag-women-make-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43415,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12293\/revisions\/43415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}