PLEASE COME AND CIRCULATE THIS WIDELY
WHEN: Friday, November 13th, 6.30 pm
WHERE: Alliance Francaise, Theosophy Hall, 40 New Marine Lines, Next
to Nirmala Niketan College, Churchgate,Mumbai 400 020, Tel: 22036187
ABOUT THE FILM
THE LIGHTNING TESTIMONIES
(113 minutes, documentary, several languages with English subtitles)
Why is one image different from the other? Why does an image seem to
contain many secrets? What can release them so as to suddenly connect
with many unknown lives.
The Lightning Testimonies reflects upon a history of conflict in the
Indian subcontinent through experiences of sexual violence. As the
film explores this violence, there emerge multiple submerged
narratives, sometimes in people, images and memories, and at other
times in objects from nature and everyday life that stand as silent
but surviving witnesses. In all narratives the body becomes central -
as a site for honour, hatred and humiliation and also for dignity and
protest. As the stories unfold, women from different times and regions
come forward. The film speaks to them directly, trying to understand
how such violence is resisted, remembered and recorded by individuals
and communities. Narratives hidden within a blue window or the weave
of a cloth appear, disappear and are then reborn in another vocabulary
at another time. Using a range of visual vocabularies the film moves
beyond suffering into a space of quiet contemplation, where resilience
creates a potential for transformation.
CREDITS
Direction Amar Kanwar Editing Sameera Jain
Camera Ranjan Palit Sound Suresh Rajamani
Assistant Director Sandhya Kumar Graphic Design Sherna Dastur
