Film : Daughters of Scheherazade
Dir: Ranjini Krishnan
Artist’s Statement
Daughters of Scheherazade opens itself to the possibility of a re-telling of a very masculine story around virginity. The ill-lit nuptials chamber becomes the contemplative space where gaze and voice come for a face-to-face encounter. I invoke Scheherazade to overcome the anxiety of this claustrophobic encounter. And as the filmmaker my attempt is to come out of the chamber without getting beheaded so that I have a story for my sisters.
The project has tenuous relation with the whole process of researching and writing, even when it remains informed by psychoanalytically informed ethnographic research, I undertook around Indian wedding night and its erotic economy. I am interested in creating permeable environments through my practice, where both the acts of theorising and filmmaking are imagined to be in perpetual flux and in need of constant re-imagining of their object domain. This work is an experiment in that direction.
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