Shumona Goel, Mumbai based artist, filmmaker Shumona showed Nikhil Arolkar and me her 20-minute film Atreyee in 2007. I just viewed it...

The semiotics of Charles Sanders Pierce was improved upon by Ferdinand De Sauserre. The status quo of semiotics is the Christian God who...

The latest offering from Lars Von Trier is the third season of his 1994 television series Riget, which was the Danish helmer’s only foray...

In his interview with Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni equates the psychological with the physiological which he equates with the...

“Anhonee subverts many of the paradigms Abbas had set up in Awaara with regard to the ‘genes vs environment’ debate. Nargis is in a...

is the empty signifier that carries the film forward. The actor embodies the MacGuffin as s/he emphasises the weight and gravity of the...

Cinema transforms the relationship between camera and object, to that of the relationship between the subject and the Self. Through...

Mani Kaul’s long television series Ahmaq, based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s masterpiece The Idiot, was largely rejected by the critics and...

The question of how religious and sectarian identities are represented in Bollywood continues to be part of the psyche of Indians and...