Material interests: land of my dreams by Nausheen Khan and screening and conversation with Kai Syng Tan

Tan, Kai Syng (2024) Material interests: land of my dreams by Nausheen Khan and screening and conversation with Kai Syng Tan.

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Abstract

Material Interests in a programme convened by Professor of Visual Politics Louise Siddons, Head of Department of Art, Media and Technology, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. In the final of the 2024 run, we welcomed award-winning filmmaker Nausheen Khan. Nausheen screened her devastating documentary 'Land of My Dreams' which foregrounds the voices of the protesters of India’s Citizenship Amendment Act, as well as the filmmaker’s own, as a Muslim woman. The screening (74 minutes in Hindi with English subtitles) was followed by a conversation with Associate Professor in Arts and Cultural Leadership Dr Kai Syng Tan. Kai met Nausheen at the prestigious Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2023 in Japan, where Kai was a juror, and where Nausheen won a Citizen’s Prize. In the UK, Nausheen has been touring the universities of Sheffield, Sussex, UCL, and KCL with fantastic responses. This session was valuable to learn more about counter-hegemonic strategies in the face of Islamophobia, threats to human rights and democracy, and misogyny not just in the Global South but beyond, and from the perspective of a courageous young feminist filmmaker. Nausheen Khan is an independent filmmaker based in India, working on gender perspectives amid conflict and political unrest in contemporary times. Land of My Dreams is her first self-financed feature-length documentary film. It won Best Long Documentary at the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, in 2023, and the Citizens' Prize at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, in 2023.

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