War
and Peace
Jung Aur Aman
(2002, 135 mins, color)
Filmed over three tumultuous years in India, Pakistan, Japan
and the USA - War and Peace records peace
activism in a time of global militarism and war. Triggered by macabre scenes
of jubilation that greeted nuclear testing in the sub-continent, the film
is framed by the murder of Mahatma Gandhi. Fifty years later memories
of Gandhi seem like a mirage that never was, created by our thirst for peace
and our very distance from it.
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Ribbons
for Peace
(1998, 5 mins, color)
An anti-nuke music
video made in the wake of India's nuclear tests revisits a 60's Hindi film
song by Kishore Kumar,
a precurser
to John Lennon's "Imagine".
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Fishing:
In the Sea of Greed
(1998, 45 minutes, color)
Fishing communities in India and Bangladesh begin to resist "rape
and run" industrial-scale fishing that has begun to decimate their livelihood
destroy their environment.
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Occupation:
Mill Worker
(1996,
22 minutes, color)
As textile mills are shut down by owners with an
eye on the rising price of
real estate, workers
forcibly take-over the New Great Eastern Mill...
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A
Narmada Diary
(1995, 57 minutes, color)
Co-directed with Simantini Dhuru, the film
documents The Narmada Bachao Andolan's
(Save Narmada Movement) battle against the giant Sardar Sarovar Dam that will
displace
200,000 people in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.
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Father,
Son
and Holy War
Pitra, Putra aur Dharmayuddha
(1995, 120 minutes, color)
On the relation between religion, violence and male identity. Does the root
of India's recent bloodshed - perhaps all bloodshed - lie in male insecurity,
itself an inevitable product of
the very construction of "manhood?"
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We
are not
your Monkeys
(1993, 5 minutes, color)
A music video giving a dalit (“untouchable”
caste) critique
of the Hindu epic Ramayana
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In
the Name of God
Ram Ke Naam
(1992, 75 minutes, color)
On the rise of Hindu fundamentalism as reflected in the temple/mosque conflict
in Ayodhya which led to nation wide carnage.
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In
Memory
of Friends
Una Mitran Di Yaad Pyaari
(1990, 60 mins, color)
On the efforts of a group of Sikhs and Hindus to rebuild
communal harmony in strife-hit Punjab by proposing that class identity is an
antidote to religious violence.
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Bombay
our City
Hamara Shahar
(1985, 75 minutes, color)
On the daily battle for survival of Bombay's
slum dwellers.
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A
Time to Rise
Uthan da Vela
(1981, 40 mins,
color)
On the efforts of Indian immigrant farm workers
in Canada to form a union.
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Prisoners
of Conscience
Zameer ke Bandi
(1978,
45 mins, B&W)
On political prisoners in India before, during
and after the State of Emergency
in 1975-77
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Waves
of
Revolution
Kraanti Ki Tarangein
(1974, 30 mins, B&W)
On an anti-corruption movement in Bihar which led to a declaration of a State
of Emergency in India.
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images you
didn't see
(2006, colour, 5 mins)
a music video that interprets images gleaned from the internet that
never appear in the mainstream media, or images whose import
is masked behind
a velvet curtain of global infotainment
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