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In Person: Chaware by Jhansy Giting Dokgre Marak

Mallika Visvanathan Nov 20, 2024

Jhansy Giting Dokre Marak’s film Chaware (Son-in-Law, 2023) looks at the experience of a young man who moves in to live with his wife’s family after the wedding, following the norms of Garo society. In this episode of In Person, Marak speaks about why she wanted to make this film, her process and research, understanding what it means to be a part of a matrilineal society, the importance of food in all communities, her wish to make films for her own community and her experience of screening the film at DIFF.

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In Person: Taak by Udit Khurana

Mallika Visvanathan Nov 18, 2024

In this episode of In Person, Udit Khurana speaks about his directorial vision for his film Taak (Tracker, 2024), the heightened reality that is engendered by the very presence of a camera, the effect on mental health due to the technologically determined nature of the gig economy, the invasiveness of society’s gaze upon women, the multiple cities that exist simultaneously in Delhi and the experience of screening his film at DIFF.
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Creating Community: In Conversation with Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam

Mallika Visvanathan Nov 15, 2024

The Dharamshala International Film Festival (DIFF), founded by filmmakers Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam in 2012, is one of India’s foremost independent film festivals. We spoke to the founders about why they started the festival, the importance of community, the infrastructural role festivals like this can play and the future of independent film festivals in the country.
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Image as Theory: The Place of the Visual in Writing

Vishal George Nov 13, 2024

James Elkins’ Keynote Address framed the discourse at Jawaharlal Nehru University’s School of Arts and Aesthetics’ Visual Studies postgraduate conference What do Images Want? Art, Identity and Difference. A Professor at the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Elkins’ talk was titled “Relations between Texts and Images” as it foregrounded the dialectic between these two mediums within art writing.
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Queering the Canon: Reimagining Art Historical Paradigms

Sudha Padmaja Francis Nov 11, 2024

What Do Images Want? Art, Identity, and Difference, an online postgraduate students conference was organised by the Visual Studies department of the School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU, from 18 to 20 October 2024. The second day had a session titled “Queering the Canon: Reimagining Art Historical Paradigms,” moderated by Vikramaditya Sahai, with presentations by Hritika Kamboj, Mayank Aggarwal and Rayan Chakrabarti.

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The Political Imagination of Art: Artist Solidarities and Museums in Exile

Editorial Nov 02, 2024

On Friday, 25 October 2024, ASAP | art organised a conversation with Kristine Khouri, joined by Rasha Salti in the Q&A, on Past Disquiet, an archival and documentary exhibition which has been touring the world since 2015.
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The Archive Activated: Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s The Answers Take Time

Ankita Ghosh Nov 01, 2024

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s retrospective, The Answers Take Time, at Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai from 14 September to 27 October, 2024, brought together a series of the artist’s body of work from nearly three decades of her practice. Curated by Esa Epstein, the exhibition showcased the wide range of experimental work that Matthew has dabbled with throughout her career.
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Film Works for Palestine: Solidarity Within and Beyond the Industry

Santasil Mallik Oct 30, 2024

Last month, Film Workers for Palestine (FWP), Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF), Palestine Film Institute (PFI) and Film Students 4 Palestine (FS4P) co-presented the three-day parallel programme Film Works for Palestine at the Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto.

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Colouring the Shadows: On Coloniality and Childhood

Kamayani Sharma Oct 29, 2024

Three short documentaries that explore the long colonisation of Palestinian childhoods in the last half-century are Jacques Madvo’s Blown by the Wind (1971), Khadijeh Habashneh’s Children without Childhood (1980) and Michel Khleifi’s Ma’loul Celebrates its Destruction (1984).

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On Omar: Life and Love in Occupied Palestine

Sudha Padmaja Francis Oct 24, 2024

A tense political thriller set in Palestine, the film Omar (2013) by Hany Abu Assad follows a young Palestinian man who is caught between love, loyalty and betrayal.

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Gaza Lives: Notes from Film Works for Palestine

Santasil Mallik Oct 21, 2024

On 5 September 2024, Film Works for Palestine opened with the fourth edition of the “Gaza Lives” event periodically presented by the Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF), where a line-up of speakers and performers paid tribute to the art and artists of Gaza.
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Film as Archive: Abdel Salam Shehada’s Ila Aby (To My Father)

Anoushka Antonnette Mathews Oct 18, 2024

In the documentary Ila Aby (To My Father, 2008), Palestinian filmmaker Abdel Salam Shehada takes us through a photographic history of the ordinary lives of Palestinian people through archival images, news reports and conversations with photographers who ran photo studios in the 1950s and 1960s.

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On Three Promises: The Palestinians’ Right to a Remembered Presence

Kshiraja Oct 16, 2024

With its non-linear editing of home-video footage tapes and present-day conversations underscored by the timestamps that hallmark the frames, Yousef Srouji’s film Three Promises (2023) reads to the audience like memory in itself, one that is kept hidden away and comes back sometimes in fragments, but all at the same time.
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Art in Delay, Hesitation as Film: Maisam Ali’s In Retreat

Sucheta Chakraborty Oct 14, 2024

In Retreat (2024) is an itinerant’s tale. Its unnamed protagonist (Harish Khanna) has been away from his mountainous home in Ladakh for years. Now back in town, we see him almost always on the move—on buses, in cars, on foot. His perpetual state of wandering in the film then becomes a metaphor for his inability to stop; a pause that would have allowed, presumably both in the past and in the present, the possibility of a return home.
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Archive of Absurdities: Abstraction, Waste and Sonic Memory

Radhika Oct 12, 2024

Aziz Hazara’s second solo show at Experimenter, Muqaddimah, presents a series of contradictions as a way of insistence on viewing the war economy’s technologies of control along with its waste. The artist makes a satirical comment on contestations of power while simultaneously telling stories of the landscape of human suffering.
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