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May 27, 2018July 6, 2018 by Eye Art Collective

Eyezine is dead: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

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…

'Chaay Garam', organised by People's Film Collective, focused on lives of tea garden workers
November 19, 2016November 20, 2016 by Siddhesh

Chaay Garam: Speaking up for Rights and Dignity of Tea Garden Workers

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…

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November 19, 2016December 11, 2016 by Manisha Ganguly

[In Pictures]: Life inside a London squat

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…

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November 17, 2016 by Firestone

WATCH: “Why Hasn’t Central Government Declared a National Medical Emergency Yet?”

"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,…

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September 29, 2016September 30, 2016 by Swastisha Mukherjee

Is There Some Space For Us Too?

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…

Cinema of Resistance
August 29, 2016 by Firestone

An Evening of Kiarostami & His Times

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…

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August 29, 2016September 1, 2016 by Firestone

Why Filmmakers Are Uniting Against The SRFTI Watermark

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…

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August 5, 2016 by Firestone

The Veil of Poetry in Shirin Neshat’s Women of Allah Series

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…

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July 30, 2016July 30, 2016 by Firestone

WATCH: Nike Da Da Ding The Other Women

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,…

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July 6, 2016July 6, 2016 by Eye Art Collective

Graffiti during Times of Protest: Case Studies of a Sentient Medium

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…

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May 12, 2016May 12, 2016 by Eye Art Collective

[WATCH] Do You Remember Konan Poshpora? :Interview by Video Volunteers

  “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…

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March 22, 2016March 22, 2016 by Eye Art Collective

Watch: The Hangman (1964) Paul Julian & Les Goldman

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…

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January 11, 2016July 20, 2016 by Eye Art Collective

“Body Is Mine, I The Soul”: Transgender Nude Artist Ratri in Conversation with Eye

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…

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January 7, 2016June 30, 2016 by Eye Art Collective

WATCH: New #OccupyUGC Video On To Study Or Not Be Able To Study

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…

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December 27, 2015 by Eye Art Collective

Why the Bechdel-Wallace Test Is Not The Last Word In “Feminist” Films

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…


VIDEO: No Malnutrition – The Tea Gardens of Bengal

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November 22, 2015 by Eye Art Collective

Photographer Reveals The Heartbreaking Places Syrian Refugee Children Sleep

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…

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November 5, 2015November 5, 2015 by Eye Art Collective

Sanjay Kak On Why He Has Returned His National Awards

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…

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November 3, 2015November 5, 2015 by Eye Art Collective

In Photos: Irom Sharmila Solidarity Protest to Revoke AFSPA in Srinagar

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).…

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October 30, 2015October 30, 2015 by Eye Art Collective

‘Caste on the Menu Card’ Barred From Screening: Statement From Filmmakers For Protest Screenings

'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),…

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October 6, 2015October 5, 2015 by Eye Art Collective

Zenana Studio: Early Women Photographers of Bengal

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…

September 3, 2015September 5, 2015 by Eye Art Collective

Cities of Sleep: A Documentary On Sleep Communes and the Sleep Industry in India

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…

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August 20, 2015 by Eye Art Collective

Emergency Declared at FTII: In Photos

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…

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August 18, 2015August 18, 2015 by Eye Art Collective

Visible Work, Invisible Women – To market, to market

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…

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August 11, 2015August 12, 2015 by Eye Art Collective

Is India going to witness its first ever nation-wide ‘protest screening’ this month?

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…

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August 7, 2015 by Eye Art Collective

Watch This Hilarious Indian Music Video About US Foreign Policy

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!)”,…

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August 4, 2015August 4, 2015 by Eye Art Collective

Joint statement condemning the ABVP disruption of the screening of the film, “Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai- Muzaffarnagar, Eventually”

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…

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July 25, 2015July 25, 2015 by Eye Art Collective

Visible Work, Invisible Women – A Lifetime Bending

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…

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January 28, 2015January 28, 2015 by Eye Art Collective

Eka Nore: Recce Shots: Potential locations – A montage

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.…

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December 10, 2014December 10, 2014 by Eye Art Collective

Man v/s Kapda: Video by M.A.D. and Eye Art Collective showing public opinion on sluts, clothes and rape in India

“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…

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December 5, 2014December 5, 2014 by Eye Art Collective

Rainbow Carnival in Calcutta this December 7th

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…

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December 5, 2014December 5, 2014 by Eye Art Collective

Frozen: A departure from the princess in distress waiting for a knight in shining armour

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…

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October 9, 2014 by Eye Art Collective

To J.K. Rowling, From Cho Chang: Rachel Rostad

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…

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