Can there be another Vikalp? Documentary film, censorship histories, and film festival publics in India

Karlekar, Tilottama

doi:10.1080/19472498.2019.1694624

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“…This building of an infrastructure for engaging with films was central to the work of activists who sought to take screenings beyond the cities and engage new cinema audiences instead of simply "preaching to the converted" (Butalia 2012;Sen 2011;Gangar and Heredia 2011). The vitality of alternative film festivals in India in the 2000s was in part the result of decades of such activism and infrastructure-building, as I have written elsewhere (Karlekar 2019).…”

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Precarity, Innovation, and Survival in the Indian Film Festival Sector

Karlekar

2023

Framing Film Festivals

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Despite the vast expansion in the film festival sector in India since the early 2000s, most festivals have remained financially precarious. This is true of more mainstream festivals with industry support as well as of myriad activist and “alternative” festivals on the margins. In addition, the country’s Hindu nationalist government has subjected all cultural spaces to increased scrutiny and policing. As the virus affected India and the Indian government enforced a national lockdown, festival organizers had to adapt rapidly. In order to survive, they looked both to global strategies and specific local histories of exhibition and circulation. In this chapter, I map the festival sector in India in the midst of crisis and explore the divergent strategies for survival adopted by festival organizers. I focus closely on the “frontline” strategies implemented by two community-based, activist film festivals that have adopted distinct, yet successful, models for navigating the pandemic. Already adept at negotiating multiple forms of precarity, they connected with new global audiences while redefining ideals of “community.” This chapter explores what these festival experiments tell us about how the festival as medium might change politically, economically, and cinematically, even beyond the pandemic.

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Precarity, Innovation, and Survival in the Indian Film Festival Sector

Karlekar

2023

Framing Film Festivals

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Between cultural performance and cultural activism: contemporary documentary film festivals in India

Battaglia

2020

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Lost in the Fumes: Affective resistance in relation to the 2019 Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement

Wong

2022

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Recent years have demonstrated the rise of localism worldwide. In an Asian context, we are witnessing an increasing number of protest events and numerous social movement documentaries being produced. In Hong Kong, Edward Tin-kei Leung 梁天琦 was the first self-proclaimed localist to participate in a democratic election and the first to be charged for riot since the Handover. The documentary film of Leung’s story, Lost in the Fumes, achieved an impressive degree of popularity among local people during the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (ELAB) movement. Analysing its storylines and plots, as well as filming techniques, from the perspectives of film studies and cultural studies, together with several interviews as a supplement, this article examines the emotional connections of films and protesting bodies in social movements. It explores the cinematic representation of Leung and how this representation was received by viewers to facilitate self-mobilization in the Anti-ELAB Movement. Hence, I will analyse the functions of films as a cultural or emotional foundation in social movements that facilitate the creation of a shared emotional engagement.

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Can there be another Vikalp? Documentary film, censorship histories, and film festival publics in India

Cited by 3 publications

References 19 publications

Precarity, Innovation, and Survival in the Indian Film Festival Sector

Precarity, Innovation, and Survival in the Indian Film Festival Sector

Between cultural performance and cultural activism: contemporary documentary film festivals in India

Lost in the Fumes: Affective resistance in relation to the 2019 Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement

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