New View, New Eyes

Film Maker
Saxena, Kaspar Jivan
Year
1993
Country
Canada
Language
Format
16mm
Length
50
Genre
documentary, experimental
Category
Portraits, Race + Ethnicity, Work about Women, Work by Women

A rare combination of personal diary and travelogue, “New View, New Eyes” traces the filmmaker’s efforts to carve out her own identity, as she makes her first visit to her father’s homeland of India. The journey is an uncomfortable one, as she struggles with “western” preconceptions of India – poverty, beggars, disease – and realizes that she herself has come there as a stranger.

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