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Black Film Bulletin, 1994, v. 2, no. 3, pp. 8-9
South Asian diasporic identity and its classification are issues in the Desh Pardish festival, a project devoted to celebrating and articulating South Asian subjectivity's in the west through film and video art. "The festival has debunked the double-deckered myth of an authentic South Asian culture piggy backing a watered down diasporic South Asian culture. But there are other myths to debunk".
ITEM 1994.085 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Wild Woman in the Woods (1993) – Shani Mootoo
Monsoon (1992) – Maya Chowdry
Voices of the Mourning – Meena Nanji
When I Was Just a Little Girl – Khaled Hakim
Latifah and Himli's Nomadic Uncle – Alnoot Dewshi
New View, New Eyes – Gitanjali
Fatima's Letter – Pratibha Parmar
The Wonder Ring – Alia Syed
Chameleon – Stan Brakhage
Taxi/Vala Auto/Biography – Gurinder Chadha
Knowing Her Place – Tanya Syed
Vivek Bald
Indu Rrishnan