About this Video
The film is about abject women. How a society perceives them, forms an image and projects it to others. How we as a society are shaping our next generations, passing on the prejudices attached with gender, caste & class to them. The beauty of this story is the curiosity of the child & the mistress of the house being enamoured by a woman, who they momentarily saw.
Creator
Mahima Tagore
Creator
An interdisciplinary filmmaker and artist from New Delhi, India, my work navigates the emotional and political lives unfolding on the margins. Born in the resistance- rich region of Bundelkhand and raised in New Delhi, my cinema is deeply rooted in the textures of life - belongingness, identity, search for home. I am a graduate of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), where I studied film direction. And under the mentorship of Béla Tarr, completed my diploma film Rising Tide, which explores intergenerational conflict and land politics in a region marked by indigenous resistance. Drawing from my background in theatre and philosophy, I approach filmmaking as a space of poetic inquiry - one that holds room for stillness, contradiction, and intimacy. Inspired by literature, paintings, regional cultures, and the invisible architectures of power, my practice foregrounds the lives of people rendered peripheral by systems of caste, class, and capital.