Ongoing Workshops and Talks
Noon Forum, Tuesdays
Talks with affiliated faculty and guests in Wright 222
This Week:
Filmmaker Nishtha Jain
May 21, 2019, 12pm
Wright 222
Nishtha Jain is an independent filmmaker based in Mumbai.
Currently, she’s a Fulbright Fellow attached to the Department of
Radio-TV-Film at The University of Texas at Austin. She’s been a
Sundance Documentary Fellow and American Show Case Fellow. She
has served as a juror at several important international
festivals like the IDFA Amsterdam; Zurich Film Festival; Cinema
Verité Teheran amongst others. She will be presenting her
work-in-progress The Golden Thread, which is an immersion into
the sense-scape of industrial textile labour. Animated by the
philosophy of Anekantavad – Many Sidedness – the film
contemplates itself as a product of an encounter between jute
workers, early industrial machines, jute fibre and the film
crew.