Queering Indian documentary: an interview with Debalina Majumdar

IF 0.5 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION

Studies in Documentary Film Pub Date : 2021-04-16 DOI:10.1080/17503280.2021.1913839

S. Venkatesan, R. James

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Although documentary filmmaking in India has a long tradition, one rarely sees any serious engagement with LGBTIQ issues. However, in the recent times, a new body of LGBTIQ documentaries either by heterosexual directors or by filmmakers who identify themselves as LGBTIQ, using a variety of formalistic styles, foreground intimate and multiple expressions of LGBTIQ subjectivities in their films. As a filmmaker who approaches LGBTIQ issues from inside out, Debalina Majumdar belongs to such a group of distinguished LGBTIQ filmmakers who documents homophobic violence, queer desires and forgotten queer histories. Her documentary films celebrate queer lives, emphasizes LGBTIQ rights and imagines queer futures through forging a nonconformist visual politics and through a range of poetic articulations. For her, filmmaking is a practice of reclaiming suppressed LGBTIQ desires as well as a mode of institutionalizing LGBTIQ identities. Debalina Majumdar in the present interview with Rajesh James and Sathyaraj Venkatesan discusses her filmic self, her engagement with LGBTIQ resistance movements in India and her documentary practices.

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印度纪录片：Debalina Majumdar访谈

尽管印度的纪录片制作有着悠久的传统，但人们很少看到任何与LGBTIQ问题的严肃接触。然而，近年来，无论是异性恋导演还是自认为LGBTIQ的电影人，都出现了一批新的LGBTIQ纪录片，他们采用了多种形式主义风格，在影片中突出了LGBTIQ主体性的亲密性和多重表达。作为一名由内而外探讨LGBTIQ问题的电影人，Debalina Majumdar属于这样一群杰出的LGBTIQ电影人，他们记录了恐同暴力、酷儿欲望和被遗忘的酷儿历史。她的纪录片庆祝酷儿的生活，强调LGBTIQ的权利，并通过塑造一种不墨守成规的视觉政治和一系列诗意的表达来想象酷儿的未来。对她来说，电影制作是一种重新唤起被压抑的LGBTIQ欲望的实践，也是一种将LGBTIQ身份制度化的模式。Debalina Majumdar在与Rajesh James和Sathyaraj Venkatesan的采访中讨论了她的电影自我，她与印度LGBTIQ抵抗运动的接触以及她的纪录片实践。

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Studies in Documentary Film FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION-

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1.00

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16.70%

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期刊介绍： Studies in Documentary Film is the first refereed scholarly journal devoted to the history, theory, criticism and practice of documentary film. In recent years we have witnessed an increased visibility for documentary film through conferences, the success of general theatrical releases and the re-emergence of scholarship in documentary film studies. Studies in Documentary Film is a peer-reviewed journal.