ASAP | art
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An editorially driven pedagogic platform that publishes critical writing around lens-based art, photography, media, and cinema from South Asia.
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Sanjita Majumder reflects on Mira Nair’s India Cabaret (1985), one of the early feminist documentary films to examine the sexual economy of Bombay’s dance bars and prostitution. asapconnect.in/post/955/singl…
In this curated album, Macy Castañeda-Lee captures her grandmother Diodora Castañeda’s battle with Parkinson’s disease. asapconnect.in/post/954/singl…
In this edited conversation, Karthik Subramanian, the director of Sleepwalker Archives (2024), reflects on his research and creative process and discusses the influence of Tamil Sangam poetry on the film. asapconnect.in/post/953/singl…
In this edited conversation, Surabhi Sharma, director of Music in a Village Named 1PB (2025), speaks about her journey documenting the Mir community in Rajasthan, and reflects on exploring the relationship between labour and music. asapconnect.in/post/952/singl…
Larissa G. Guimaraes critically reflects on Aziz’s film The Genius of the Place (2023), contending that it falls short of its stated goal of revealing something novel about Bawa’s work. asapconnect.in/post/951/singl…
Arindam Sen reflects on how Mark LaPore’s oeuvre signals a complex, non-linear relational dynamic of history, politics and the present, and highlights the obscurity of LaPore’s films from critical discourse. asapconnect.in/post/950/singl…
In this edited conversation with Mallika Visvanathan, Sruthil Mathew speaks about the inspiration behind his film Dinosaur’s Egg, the research process, the role of dreams in his filmmaking, and the relationship between sound and time in cinema. asapconnect.in/post/948/singl…
Banhi Sarkar is a filmmaker and writer. For ASAP | art, she has written about contemporary films reflecting on questions of gender, caste, displacement and collective endurance.
Dev Saraswat is a writer, researcher and PhD scholar in Cinema Studies at JNU. For ASAP | art, Dev has written about contemporary films, documenting exhibitory screenings and events, with a focus on questions of censorship, gender, digital media, OTT and political cinema.
For ASAP | Art, Asim Rafiqui, has written about Sufi shrines across the subcontinent and conflict zones in Gaza. His work interrogates the cultural and political dynamics of these sites, examining spaces of shared coexistence, displacement and ruin.
Sumaiya Mustafa is a writer, culinary ethnographer and researcher based in Tamil Nadu. For ASAP | art, Sumaiya has written on cinema, cookbooks and literature to reflect on Tamil lives and culture, as well as caste and class dynamics.
In this edited conversation with Mallika Vishwanathan, Sivaranjini reflects on the process of making Victoria, how her filmmaking interweaves research and practice, and the gender discourses the film has sparked. asapconnect.in/post/946/singl…
In this edited conversation with Mallika Visvanathan, Mahishaa reflects upon Dr Ambedkar’s legacy and message, his own filmmaking process and the necessity of Dalit, Bahujan and Adivasi (DBA) collectivities. asapconnect.in/post/945/singl…
In this edited conversation, Asmita Pal discusses her filmmaking process, documenting the protests held on the streets of Kolkata in the aftermath of the RG Kar case and the archival nature of the film. asapconnect.in/post/944/singl…
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