2024 / 27' / English, Hindi / India
✦ The World & The Self
Boudinet’s Curtain juxtaposes interviews with queer individuals and their childhood photographs to explore silence, memory, and unrecorded identities. Challenging the photograph's role as visual evidence, the film approaches images through a material and sensory understanding that extends beyond seeing.
The work forms a part of the artist’s (Maya) broader project of queering childhood.
Director(s) : Maya
Editor(s) : Maya
Sound : Maya
Maya is a genderqueer artist-researcher whose work experiments with notions of material, memory, and time. Their practice spans a vast spectrum of methodologies, research disciplines, and mediums from photography, video, and image-making to cultural and media studies, with a focus on queering the divisions and neatly packed boundaries between artistic, archival, and research practice. Their exploration into media practice is attuned within a participatory approach that prioritises on ethics of listening in studying visuality.
