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Born in the
industrial town of Jameshedpur, Madhusree has always been
attracted towards the physical and social labyrinths of the
urban milieu. Migration and movement surfacing through
various fluid cultural notes - railways as a metaphor for
those conjunctions; feminisation process of the urban poor,
communalisation of the identities, classification of
resources and all contemporary forms to represent that
status quo; transgressions of all kinds and forms at various
scales engage and inform Madhusree’s works.
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Madhusree is a
filmmaker; also a curator and pedagogue. Though visual
culture is the key to her works, multi-disciplinary
initiatives and multi-layered representations frame her
myriad engagements. An alumni of Jadavpur University,
Kolkata and National School of Drama, New Delhi she
currently lives in Mumbai.
Madhusree Dutta is the founder and executive director of
Majlis, a centre for rights discourse and inter-disciplinary
art initiatives in Mumbai, India. The centre is engaged in
cultural literacy, contemporary practices of archiving,
mobilising artists around political articulations and in
producing plays, films and multidisciplinary art works.
Filmmaking, theatre, visual arts, literature, media
products; students’ movement, feminist movement, movement
against communalism, movement for democratisation of art
practices; cultural literacy, art pedagogy, interfaces
between genres, movements and disciplines form the path of
Madhusree’s personal journey.
Retrospectives of Madhusree’s works were held in NGBK art
gallery, Berlin in 2001; International women’s film
festival, Trivandrum in 2005, Feminnale, Koln in 2006,
Madurai Short Film Festival in 2007 and Persistent
Resistance Film Festival, New Delhi in 2008.
Her current film ‘7 Islands and a Metro’
has the distinction to be one of the first Indian
non-fiction films to be commercially released.
She has also served as member of the jury in various
international film festivals.
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