Yeh Freedom Life

Yeh Freedom Life (Priya Sen, 70 min, 2018) is available for viewing from 2.00 PM CET on Friday, 22nd October until 2.00 PM CET on Tuesday 26th October.

Yeh Freedom Life is filmed in the dense streets and neighbourhoods of Ambedkar Nagar in New Delhi, 'Yeh Freedom Life' (This Freedom Life) tries to keep up with its protagonists, as they maneuver erratic and unpredictable love. One of them works at a local beauty parlour, the other runs the family kiosk at a crowded intersection. They are surrounded by a cacophonous city; they are both in love with other women. The film stays with them and their desire for 'freedom lives', outside society and family's constant scrutiny and sanction. But this ‘freedom life’ also leaves them vulnerable to the precariousness of love, when it refuses such constraints.

Priya Sen will be in conversation with Sabeena Gadihoke (MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi) at 16.00-18.00 CET / 19.30-21.30 IST on Monday, 25th October 2021.


	Priya Sen is a New Delhi based filmmaker and artist who works with nonfiction and experimental forms across film /video, sound, and installation. Her films have been presented at the Flaherty Seminar 2019, among other festivals and venues that include The Kitchen NYC, BFI London Film Festival, Forum Expanded Berlinale, Bangalore Queer Fest, Outfest LA, Experimenta, Kochi Biennale and Dharamshala International Film Festival.
	Sabeena Gadihoke is Professor at the AJK MCRC at Jamia Millia Islamia where she teaches Video and Television Production. She started her career as an independent documentary filmmaker and cameraperson and has written a book on India's first woman press photographer Homai Vyarawalla titled Camera Chronicles (Mapin/Parzor, 2006). A photo historian and curator, her most recent curatorial project was a retrospective of photographer Jitendra Arya at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai and Bangalore titled Light Works. Her research interests focus on the intersection of the still and moving image and she has written on contemporary documentary films, photo history, popular visual culture and female stardom in Bombay cinema. Gadihoke is on the board of studies of several institutions and is currently a member of the Editorial Committee of the Trans Asia Photography Review.

Priya Sen is a New Delhi based filmmaker and artist who works with nonfiction and experimental forms across film /video, sound, and installation. Her films have been presented at the Flaherty Seminar 2019, among other festivals and venues that include The Kitchen NYC, BFI London Film Festival, Forum Expanded Berlinale, Bangalore Queer Fest, Outfest LA, Experimenta, Kochi Biennale and Dharamshala International Film Festival.

Sabeena Gadihoke is Professor at the AJK MCRC at Jamia Millia Islamia where she teaches Video and Television Production. She started her career as an independent documentary filmmaker and cameraperson and has written a book on India's first woman press photographer Homai Vyarawalla titled Camera Chronicles (Mapin/Parzor, 2006). A photo historian and curator, her most recent curatorial project was a retrospective of photographer Jitendra Arya at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai and Bangalore titled Light Works. Her research interests focus on the intersection of the still and moving image and she has written on contemporary documentary films, photo history, popular visual culture and female stardom in Bombay cinema. Gadihoke is on the board of studies of several institutions and is currently a member of the Editorial Committee of the Trans Asia Photography Review.