Amar Kanwar

The Scene of the Crime

Amar Kanwar has been filming the resistance of local communities in the state of Orissa, to the industrial interventions taking place since 1999. In 2010, he returned again to Orissa but this time to film, in particular, the terrain of this devastating conflict. Almost every image in this film lies within specific territories that are proposed industrial sites and are in the process of being acquired by government and corporations in Orissa. In this "war by the state against its own land and people" The Scene of the Crime is an experience of the battleground and the personal lives that exist within a natural landscape.

Lal Hara Lehrake

On Shankar Guha Niyogi’s last testament.

A Night of Prophecy

‘A Night of Prophecy’ is a film about poetry, songs and the passage of time through multiple journeys along fault lines in a democracy. Interrogating the nation, its history and future the film and the poets open up an underbelly seldom experienced.

Such a Morning

Presented at Documenta 14 in Athens.

Non Violence- A Dialogue of India's Quest

A series of discussion - India's Quest ,with university students from all over India that looks at some of the critical issues that India confronts as we count down to the next millennium and celebrate the 50th anniversary of our independence.

The Lightning Testimonies

An adapted video art installation documenting violence against women in India throughout history.

Freedom...!

Documentary on the social and environmental struggles of the poor people in India.

The Many Faces of Madness

Made for the Foundation for Ecological Security, India, The Many Faces of Madness is a short film that emerges from the reality of ecological destruction and the appropriation of the commons in India.

Marubhumi

Marubhumi is about the story of water in Rajasthan, India and offers glimpses of history, policies and the development of water harvesting in ancient and modern Jodhpur.

A Season Outside

Amar Kanwar’s A Season Outside is a thought provoking quest to investigate the futility or validity of violence. The film employs several codes of conflict and discord—from the territorial border of India and Pakistan to visuals of Tibetan refugee settlement— to satiate the curiosity to posit violence as a credible response to hurt and harm. It questions its worthiness as device to exact revenge on the transgressor.