NO STRANGERS AT ALL
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Synopsis
Filmed in Delhi for two years starting in 2020, these are incomplete fictions that try to keep the language of hatred at bay while absorbing the city’s grief and euphoria. The false closures and tenuous associations in this video / essay compose a timeline of the city at an angle through the time of this work. There is a shadowy sense of a protagonist who un-dreams it all; a stranger who turns out to be no stranger at all.
About the director
Priya Sen
Priya Sen is an independent filmmaker and artist whose work explores forms for tenuousness and ambiguity within realist documentary, and simultaneously plays with narrative modes and cinematic gestures. She is interested in eclectic, itinerant, and egalitarian film forms and the manners of presence that accompany each work. Sen’s work has screened at festivals and venues in India and globally. She received an MA from Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, and an MFA in film and media arts from Temple University, Philadelphia, and is currently a Radcliffe Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, 2023-24.