2026 / 67' / English, Hindi / India, UK
✦ Intersectional
Over two months in 2024, six women from Hyderabad, India, came together for a series of workshops to reflect on their childhood violence. My Body Feels with Me is an act of collective filmmaking that uses personal histories and memories to build a shared visual archive for opening space for new ways of imagining survival and liberation. The film asks what it means to live with trauma and pain, and how cinema can be a vehicle for the body's quiet forms of resistance.
Director(s) : Srikrupa Raghunathan
Producer(s) : Srikrupa Raghunathan
Cinematographer(s) : Srikrupa Raghunathan, Poshali Goel
Writer(s) : BodyMind Collective: Dakeeni, Lama, Lavanaya, Mythili, Nagina, and Srikrupa
Editor(s) : Srikrupa Raghunathan
Sound : Teenasai Balamu
Srikrupa Raghunathan is a documentary filmmaker, interdisciplinary researcher, and artist working across India and the UK. She is currently completing her PhD in Film Practice at QMUL. Her practice moves across documentary, experimental forms, and moving images and is shaped by interests in gender, health, disability, embodiment, labour, food sovereignty, and ecology. Her work is rooted in the belief that film can be a vehicle for collective reimagination.
BodyMind Collective brings together women with lived experiences of complex trauma in Hyderabad, India to collectively create film(s). Through workshops integrating art, image-making, movement, and collective storytelling. Women collectively explored how experiences of violence, shaped by caste, class, gender, and disability, are carried in the body. The collective has made two films: Aasha and My Body Feels with Me.
