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A photography exhibition by Khademul Insan is being held at the Gothe-Institut in Dhaka.
   The exhibition, titled ‘Concert Concept’, which was inaugurated last week, is based on the alternative rock and jazz concert scenario in Dhaka.
   It focuses around the environment of the musicians before and after the performances, the fans interacting with the post-concert frenzy, primarily representing the band BLACK and Jazzy chopsticks, an Asian flip flop jazz band.
   The images included candid scenes of the actors’ workshop sessions, rehearsals, candlelight experiment in and around the stage set (as electricity was out during one of the performances) and stills of the actual performance.
   Insan covers the entire realm of the each experience, whether it is the fashion world, the theatre or the alternative music world –– the running theme is that one can get a glimpse, a view into the different worlds.
   In each frame, he incorporates the sensibility of both an intense and subtle interaction reflected within these different pop-culture groups.
   This exhibition not only activates the wall but also embraces the inventive atmosphere of the fairly new café at the garden level of the Goethe-Institut.
   More over, often many of the ‘subjects’ from the images on the wall are seen sitting at the café having a drink and spending time with friends. He is also the person who is running the Café Tin Drum.
   The exhibition will remain open for all till May 31.

With his follow-up to ‘Fahrenheit 9/11,’ Michael Moore wants to examine America as an empire, study its standing since the September 11 attacks and present revelations to surprise audiences as much as the first film did.
   But he doesn’t want to make a sequel.
   ‘To just say it’s a sequel is so wrong,’ Moore told The Associated Press on Friday at the Cannes Film Festival, where he met with potential international distributors for the film, due out in 2009.
   The documentary announced this week at Cannes will be a broader chronicle than ‘Fahrenheit 9/11,’ which took President Bush to task over the terrorist attacks and the Iraq war.
   ‘It would be easier and safer to make a sequel, if that’s all it was, but this isn’t about Bush. We all know this. Regardless of who the president is come November, we have a big mess, a big, big mess to be cleaned up, and I don’t know whether it can be cleaned up,’ Moore said. ‘The toxicity of the spill may be so great that there’s nothing we can do about it. If that’s the case, where are we now as America and as Americans?’
   ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ won the top prize at Cannes in 2004 and went on to top $100 million at the domestic box office, the only documentary to hit that mark.
   Moore plans to keep details of the film to himself, saying he regretted talking too early about his health-care documentary ‘Sicko.’ Health insurers were able to mobilize against him, which ‘made it impossible for me to get in anywhere’ for interviews, he said.
   The new film, which doesn’t yet have a title, is being financed by Overture Films, which is handling the U.S. release, and Paramount Vantage, which is overseeing international distribution.
   Chris McGurk, chief executive officer of Overture, said the new film will be something of a culmination of Moore’s previous work, which includes the General Motors tale ‘Roger & Me’ and the Academy Award-winning gun-control documentary ‘Bowling for Columbine.’