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Madhusree is a
filmmaker; also a curator, pedagogue, researcher, producer
and activist. 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 multicultural art
initiatives in Mumbai, India. The centre is engaged in
campaigning for cultural literacy among students and other
youth groups, mobilising artists around contemporary issues
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 festival.
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