Event overview
Documentary Screening + Q& A with filmmaker (through Zoom) as part of the Disobedient Bodyminds Film Series
We are delighted to screen this new documentary by Jyoti Nisha as part of our ongoing series. All welcome, no registration needed!!
The filmmaker Jyoti Nisha will introduce the film (through Zoom) and will engage the audience in a Q&A after the film.
SYNOPSIS of the film
Dr. B. R Ambedkar: Now & Then, is a feature length documentary film that explores deep questions of human condition. Through an oppositional gaze of a Bahujan feminist filmmaker, Jyoti Nisha, in an upper caste Indian film industry, the film delves into deep questions of liberty, equality, fraternity, social justice, exclusion and marginalized representation. The film
aspires to translate the praxis of Ambedkarite politics to image making and representation of marginalized subjects’ culture, history, politics in popular cinema and media with an oppositional Bahujan gaze and agency. Driven by Dr. Ambedkar’s philosophy epistemologically, the film symbolically and politically documents the representation and assertion of Bahujan people in the contemporary era. Questioning the institution of caste in India, this film is a commentary on religion, revolution, politics, and the freedom of speech.
BIO
Jyoti Nisha is a multi disciplinary professional - an academic, writer, screenwriter, filmmaker and a producer with a focus on cinema, gaze, caste, gender and mass media. She has theorised two groundbreaking political theories, Indian Cinema and the Bahujan Spectatorship and The Oppositional Bahujan Agency that explore the consumption and spectatorship of popular cinema’s representation of caste, gender, and sexuality by the marginalised of India and an inverted methodology of creating a unique oppositional socio-political Bahujan aesthetics in Indian cinema embedded in Bahujan lived experience, culture, history, movements, and ideology via Bahujan film-makers.
Produced by Dharmatic Entertainment and streaming on Netflix, she also worked as a Director’s Assistant to Neeraj Ghayawan on his short, Geeli Pucchi (part of Ajeeb Daastaans anthology). She studied journalism from IIMC, Delhi, screenwriting from FTII, Pune & and Media and Cultural Studies from TISS, Mumbai and wrote for many national and international publications and taught as a Producing Faculty at Whistling Woods International. ‘Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: Now & Then,’ is her debut feature length documentary film, which she has directed, produced, crowdfunded and is co-producing with Pa Ranjith’s Neelam Productions.
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Disobedient Bodyminds is a film series running in Spring Term 2024 at Goldsmiths. Each week, we watch a film or a series of films that centre questions of violence, resistance, solidarities, care, community, liberation, collectivity, justice and global majority worlds. We pay attention to the films and to the modes of making politically important (and collectively created) visual work! Follow the series - bit.ly/DBFilmSeries
Disobedient Bodyminds Film Series
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Jan 2024 | 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
Accessibility
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