Cinema

India Cabaret

D: Mira Nair, India 1985, 58 min, English subtitles

Thu, Jun 23–Thu, Aug 25, 2022
Thu, Jun 23, 2022
Lecture Hall
6.45 pm
Admission included in exhibition ticket
Thu, Jun 30, 2022
Lecture Hall
6.45 pm
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Thu, Jul 7, 2022
Lecture Hall
6.45 pm
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Thu, Jul 14, 2022
Lecture Hall
6.45 pm
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Thu, Jul 21, 2022
Lecture Hall
6.45 pm
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Thu, Jul 28, 2022
Lecture Hall
6.45 pm
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Thu, Aug 4, 2022
Lecture Hall
6.45 pm
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Thu, Aug 11, 2022
Lecture Hall
6.45 pm
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Thu, Aug 18, 2022
Lecture Hall
6.45 pm
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Thu, Aug 25, 2022
Lecture Hall
6.45 pm
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Every Thursday

6.45 pm

Admission with exhibition ticket

© Norddeutscher Rundfunk 1986

In her contribution to She, the Inappropriate/d Other, a 1986–87 special issue of Discourse edited by Trinh T. Minh-ha, Mira Nair reflects on the questions that drove the making of India Cabaret, a film depicting the lives of cabaret dancers in Mumbai: “Why was I there? I wanted to tell a story that would go beyond the stereotypes in my society of ‘respectable’ women and ‘immoral’ women. What makes a woman considered one or the other? What are these distinctions based on, and in whose interests are they perpetuated?” Nair accords special attention to the tensions between the women’s daytime existence and their nighttime employment. As she puts it, the film is “about the unshakeable inviolability of double standards, of patriarchal values, of the strong conditioning of women never to question or challenge.”