Yousuf Saeed reflects on the challenges of making documentary films in India, and using them as a means of education and research. Saeed also talks about his experience as a visiting scholar at Stanford University and special film collections at Green library. 

In the hands of filmmakers, executions were more than acts of retribution and incapacitation. They were opportunities for personal, and sometimes cultural, redemption.

Iseeyou (2013) is a short film essay by Simon Gush, depicting Johannesburg’s representations of mining. The film deftly questions what is at stake in the visibility and invisibility of labor.

We owe others our language, our history, our art, our survival, our neighborhood, our relationships, … our ability to defy social conventions as well as support these conventions. All of this we learn from others. None of us is alone; each of us is dependent on others.

–Toni Morrison

The challenge was...

In Noah Baumbach’s 2015 national-millennial fable, Mistress America, “I’m just normal” bespeaks dissatisfaction. It’s an identity that Tracy claims in an effort to project her way out of it.