film and photography
Eyezine is officially shutting down today, almost five years since it began in the winter of 2013. We started in a small room in Calcutta, with the willingness to pursue truth-telling of hyperlocal issues being…
In the midst of a nation-wide financial crisis following the central government’s sudden demonitisation announcement of 8th November, there came the terrible news that the weekly wages of tea garden…
BY MANISHA GANGULY Number 36 doesn't look like a squat. In a too-neat neighbourhood with Victorian houses and white picket fences, it's the junk furniture left out on the yard…
"More than 300 Adivasi children have died in Malkangiri in the past two months of Japanese Encephalitis, official figure says 110 but local activists say the number is much higher,…
I don’t feel it’s necessary to quote numbers to establish a fact we all know – this country produces the largest number of films. We are also proudly told that…
On the 15th of August, 2016, People's Film Collective (Kolkata) organised a full-day programme in order to remember the master fillmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, who passed away in July 2016. In…
Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) and Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute of India (SRFTI) are the only two central government funded film institutes in the country. Both…
Shirin Neshat (born 1957, Qazvin), who lives and works in New York City, left Iran in 1974 to study in Los Angeles. She stayed in California, receiving her BFA and…
This video published on YouTube by user Epic Spiritual recently went viral for exposing the hypocrisy in Nike's new ad. Dedicated to the women who have been doing it anyway, for centuries. Without appreciation,…
The city has a reciprocal relationship with the space and the content in it- the content defines as much of the space as the space defines content, and the external…
“Do you remember Kunan Poshpora? a book by five young Kashmiri women Essar Batool, Ifrah Butt, Samreena Mushtaq, Munaza Rashid and Natasha Rather investigates the fateful night of mass-rape…
A parable about the consequences of being a bystander to evil, from a disturbing poem by Maurice Ogden, read by Herschel Bernardi. Shadows and shifting geometric planes lend a Chirico-like…
Ratri Rajesh Saha is a transgender woman working in TCS. She is also a revolutionary queer icon, who is choosing to express herself by using her body as a canvas. She…
On the 4th of January, as the #OccupyUGC protest entered its 75th day, a group known as The Media Collective published this video to highlight the issues at stake. The Occupy protest in front of the University…
Our interactions in daily life stem from visual perceptions – our culture reflects, and is reflected by, the style of conversation and situational formula that is depicted on screen. Images…
For the series “Where The Children Sleep,” photojournalist Magnus Wennman traveled through refugee camps in the Middle East to document the trials of Syrian families and their children. Fleeing conflict…
Director of the pathbreaking documentaries such as, Red Ant Dream/Mati Ke Laal, Jashn-e-Azadi: How We Celebrate Freedom, In the Forest Hangs a Bridge, and Geeli Meetti, Sanjay Kak has returned the National Awards…
2nd November, Jammu and Kashmir: A protest was held in Srinagar in solidarity with Irom Sharmila's 15 years of resistance against the draconian Act, Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).…
'Caste on the Menu Card' (2014) is a 21 min long documentary film made by 5 students of School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS),…
from Taking Pictures: The Practice of Photography by Bengalis, by Siddhartha Ghosh Translated by Debjani Sengupta Published originally in Bengali, in 1988, by Ananda publishers, pvt. ltd. Volume 4, Issue…
In a day of twenty four hours, it is recommended that eight hours be dedicated to sleep. However, with the evolution of technological accessibility, the hours that we devote to…
Update from FTII: "More than 15 students to be arrested through an FIR lodged by the Director against the students. There is no woman officer, no girls warden, no boys…
By P. Sainath The bamboos are about three times the height of the women who have brought them here. Each woman has carried one or more to this weekly haat…
On Aug 1, 2015, the screening of Nakul Singh Sawhney's documentary film "Muzaffarnagar Baqi Hain- Muzaffarnagar Eventually" on the Muzaffarnagar riot that took place before the 2014 elections that rocketed…
This is internet gold. And a really great song. Directed by KP Sasi and based on Kamaan Singh Dhami's anti-war song “American War Paar Da! (Check Out the American War!)”,…
Montage, the film society of Kirori Mal College in the University of Delhi was screening “Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai- Muzaffarnagar Eventually” this afternoon, i.e. August 1, 2015. After about one hour…
By P.Sainath She paused, exasperated by the midday sun in Vizianagaram. But remained bent over. She knew she would resume work in moments -- in that very posture. Working in…
We here at Eye Art Collective are very bored. When we're not tearing at our scalps because of evil or disillusionment, often we have nothing else to do. Except make montages.…
“Any regulated dress code from bikinis to burqas assumes that men are weak, impulsive, and untrustworthy." A woman's clothing is not an incitement to rape. M.A.D (Mad About Drama) in…
Sappho for Equality is one of the oldest support groups in eastern India for the LGBTIQA community, and is now one of the largest groups active with numerous gender sensitization…
In popular culture, Disney has become synonymous with the Disney princesses in films like Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, et al. Although featuring a female…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFPWwx96Kew When you put me in your books, millions of Asian girls across America rejoiced! Finally, a potential Halloween costume that wasn't a geisha or Mulan! What’s not to love…