Identity videorecording The Construction of Selfhood a film by Anjali Monteiro and K. P. Jayasankar ; Unit for Media and Communications, Tata Institute of Social Sciences.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublication details: Bombay Monteiro,Anjali and Jayasankar, K.P. c1994Description: 1 videodisc (21 min.) sd., col 4 3/4 inSubject(s): Genre/Form:
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Questioning the notion of the self as a pre-given, primordial and purposive entity, this film explores the gamut of modes in which identities are produced, circulated and consumed within the modern urban Indian culture. Identity is both difference and relationship; identity is enmeshed in relations of power, be they of gender, race or religion. Traversing a multi-cultural terrain inhabited by Paul Klee and the Indo-Anglian poet, A.K. Ramanujan, by popular television commercials and the writings of riot-affected children, by Michel Foucault and Sant Kabir, the medieval Sufi poet, the video is an invitation to examine anew our praxis of identity as a site of resistance and change.
Awards:
  • Award: Asia Prize, Prix Futura, Berlin, 1995; Second Prize, Education and Literacy category, International Video Festival, Thiruvananthapuram, India, 1995. Selected Screenings: Mumbai International Film Festival, India, 1996.
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Questioning the notion of the self as a pre-given, primordial and purposive entity, this film explores the gamut of modes in which identities are produced, circulated and consumed within the modern urban Indian culture. Identity is both difference and relationship; identity is enmeshed in relations of power, be they of gender, race or religion. Traversing a multi-cultural terrain inhabited by Paul Klee and the Indo-Anglian poet, A.K. Ramanujan, by popular television commercials and the writings of riot-affected children, by Michel Foucault and Sant Kabir, the medieval Sufi poet, the video is an invitation to examine anew our praxis of identity as a site of resistance and change.

DVD ; PAL.

In English and Hindi with English subtitles.

Award:
Asia Prize, Prix Futura, Berlin, 1995;
Second Prize, Education and Literacy category, International Video Festival, Thiruvananthapuram, India, 1995.

Selected Screenings:
Mumbai International Film Festival, India, 1996.

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