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Of Breath and Death: Vigil by Pallavi Paul

Pramodha Weerasekera Jan 17, 2025

Pallavi Paul’s ongoing multidisciplinary series of artworks titled The Wind in Your Body Is Just Visiting, the Breath Will Soon Be Thunder (2023–ongoing) reflects on the power of the unseen—a recurring motif in her decade-long practice. Vigil (2023), a film of nine minutes and twenty-two seconds, starts this series, where a graveyard keeper at a private cemetery near the Maulana Azad Hospital in Delhi reminisces about his work and livelihood during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Landscape and History at the Chennai Photo Biennale

Kshiraja Jan 15, 2025

The fourth edition of the Chennai Photo Biennale (CPB) emphatically platforms artists who, through their practice, seek to challenge dominant narratives in visual representation. Kshiraja interviews three of the CPB's featured artists pursuing these lines of inquiry through their practices by establishing landscapes as a repository of personal and collective histories.
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My Father: Chronicles of a Dalit Textile Mill Worker in Mumbai

Babasaheb Kamble Jan 13, 2025

Babasaheb Kamble writes the story of his father, whose life reflects a broader narrative of migration, labour and resilience among Dalit textile workers, highlighting their struggles against economic precarity and caste-based discrimination within industrial labour sectors.
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Charandas Chor: Shyam Benegal’s Children’s Film

Akshay Shelar Jan 11, 2025

The film Charandas Chor (1975) was screened at the NFDC-National Film Archives of India (as a part of the Film Circle screenings) in memory of the late director Shyam Benegal. Benegal’s name is often associated with the keywords Parallel Cinema, Realistic Films, Film Society Movement and so on. Showcasing a film produced by the Children’s Film Society of India aptly highlights the ample range of his filmography.

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Revisiting Historiography: Photographing the Two Bengals

Sukanya Deb Jan 10, 2025

In the pre-launch to his upcoming book Bengal Photography's Reality Quest (2024), Bangladeshi filmmaker and academic Naeem Mohaiemen presented a historiography of Bengali photography, literature and film, specifically its politicised deployments between Bangladesh (as East Pakistan and after independence) and West Bengal within India.
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On Power and Representation at the Chennai Photo Biennale

Upasana Das Jan 09, 2025

The Chennai Photo Biennale features artists examining themes of power and representation, including gender, identity and violence. Upasana Das speaks to these artists as they reflect on how their works question traditional power structures and give voice to marginalised perspectives.
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Curatorial Practice at the Chennai Photo Biennale

Mallika Visvanathan Jan 04, 2025

The fourth edition of the Chennai Photo Biennale (CPB) with the theme “Why Photograph?” recently launched the first of its three phases in December 2024, and will be on display till March 2025 in various locations across Chennai. Mallika Visvanathan spoke to the curators of the primary shows about their vision and the insights they have acquired in reflecting on the biennale’s provocation.
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The Measure of Value: Daughter of the Sea

Radhika Jan 02, 2025

Screened at the 9th edition of the Serendipity Arts Festival held in Goa from 15-22 December 2024, Nicole Gormley and Nancy Kwon’s 18-minute documentary Daughter of the Sea: Sisterhood in the Sea is a deeply moving and intimate account of the alienation caused by capital’s imperative of competition.

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On the Aldona Video Club: In Conversation with Kapil Das and Grant Davis

Radhika Dec 25, 2024

The Aldona Video Club (AVC) is an ongoing film project that began in 2018 as a camera test. Founded by Kapil Das and Grant Davis, AVC attempts to blend traditional narrative modes of filmmaking with their parallel interest in more subversive forms of cinema and moving images. In this edited conversation, Kapil Das and Grant Davis speak with us about their practice as filmmakers and curators, their response tothe topography of Goa and audience responses to their choice of space for film screenings.
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In Person: I Am Lawrence Wilson by Varun Kodamana

Radhika Dec 20, 2024

Varun Kodamana’s documentary I Am Lawrence Wilson (2022) is a joyride into the magical world of analogue film through the life of its protagonist, the near-seventy-five-year-old cinephile and artist Lawrence Wilson. Programmed as part of Aldona Video Club’s public screenings at the 9th edition of the Serendipity Arts Festival from 15-22 December 2024 in Goa, the film uncovers the many sides of Wilson.

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Reading Between the Signs: On Niharika Popli's If I Could Tell You

Anoushka Antonnette Mathews Dec 19, 2024

Screening at the 9th edition of the Serendipity Arts Festival, If I Could Tell You (2024) by Niharika Popli explores the lives of Surbhi and Charu, two working women from Delhi navigating the intersection of hearing and deafness. Charu, a deaf woman, grew up with a deaf sister in a hearing family, while Surbhi, a hearing woman, was raised by deaf parents with Indian Sign Language as her first language.

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In Person: Carbon with Ravi Agarwal and David Verghese

Radhika Dec 18, 2024

Carbon, curated by the Science Gallery Bengaluru in collaboration with Ravi Agarwal, reflects upon carbon as “buried sunshine” as it explores the limits and conditions of possibility of carbon as both substance and phenomenon. The exhibition contemplates the dialectic inherent in the very nature of carbon.
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In Person: The Everlasting River by Dayananda Nagaraju and Niranjan NB

Radhika Dec 17, 2024

Dayananda Nagaraju and Niranjan NB’s project The Everlasting River (2024), presented as part of Food Matters at the 9th edition of the Serendipity Arts Festival from 15-22 December 2024 in Goa, is an invitation to reflect upon the civilisational significance of the Kaveri River.

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On Ghosts in Machines: Responses to a Present Devouring Itself

Aparna Chivukula Dec 16, 2024

The exhibition Ghosts in Machines, curated by Damian Christinger at the Serendipity Arts Festival 2024, displays a sensitivity to the vocabularies and syntaxes of ecological time across a range of creative practices, including photography, archives, video and sound installations.
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The Earth Walked with Them: Rebellion and Trauma in Amma Ariyan

Kshiraja Dec 14, 2024

The final work of John Abraham, Amma Ariyan accents a non-linear fictional narrative with cinéma-vérité reports of ongoing and historical workers’ struggles, traversing the political and geographical landscape of Kerala. Screened as part of Dr. Omar Ahmed’s insightfully curated Rewriting the Rules: Pioneering Indian Cinema after 1970 at the Barbican, Amma Ariyan is rooted in the Parallel Cinema movement of the 1970s–90s.
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