session #1

Afterlife: Jole Dobe Na | Grace

Two films by Naeem Mohaiemen

Monday, June 05, 2023 at 4:00 pm IST
venue: School of Environment & Architecture, CKP Colony, Eksar Road, Borivali West, Mumbai 400 091.
This screening brings together two films about end of life and caregivers. Jole Dobe Na (2020) is a fiction film set within the haunting of a hospital, made in response to a prompt by Delhi-based Raqs Media Collective for the Yokohama Triennale, Japan. Grace (2022) is a documentary about Karen Wentworth, the second person to sign up for end-of-life options under the newly passed Right To Dignified Death law in Maine, USA.



about

Naeem Mohaiemen combines photography, films, and essays to research forms of utopia-dystopia in South Asia after 1947. He is Associate Professor of Visual Arts & Concentration Head of Photography at Columbia University, New York.


The film screening will happen on SEA Campus followed by a discussion with the filmmaker.