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Priya Sen

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Biography

Priya Sen works as a filmmaker and artist across film / video, sound and installation. Her work has centred around questions of form, urban ethnography, music and migration. She is currently based in New Delhi.

Known For

No Stranger at All
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Through a collection of incomplete fictions, this film portrays Delhi, India, in times of lockdown and unrest. Priya Sen constructs a kaleidoscope of resilient voices that keep the language of hatred at bay and absorb the city’s grief and euphoria.

No Stranger at All

2023
Faasla
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A series of video letters composed between Nicolás Grandi in Buenos Aires and Priya Sen in New Delhi, artists and collaborators since 2011.

Faasla

2021
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Documentary film about oral citations on Wikipedia.

People are Knowledge

2011
Pari
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Pari attempts to describe an event in the days of Pari and Praveen, a violent rupture that allowed in a life held by desire and not duty. In this film, they recount their love story against the undertones and backdrop of threat and violence. The present is both fraught and romantic; the disruption of a past moment finds momentary comfort in recall; the future is hopeful.

Pari

2024
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Vérité documentary of a day in the life of a government-run, free dispensary in the Savda-Ghevra, Delhi’s most recent resettlement colony.

Noon Day Dispensary

2014
About Elsewhere
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About Elsewhere seeks to foreground the impossibility of fixing notions of sexuality through ideas of 'identity' and 'language'. As the film moves through the various worlds the filmmaker inhabits, it suggests a self in constant formation; one that constructs itself from parts and places that are in themselves, fragments of memory and experience.

About Elsewhere

2007
Yeh Freedom Life
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Filmed over a year in Ambedkar Nagar, a dense, largely working class area in South Delhi. It moves between the two very different worlds of its protagonists, Sachi and Parveen, and tries to keep up with the currents and swings of their respective loves. Sachi works at a local beauty parlor, Parveen runs the family’s small cigarette counter at a crowded intersection. They are surrounded by a cacophonous city; they are both in love with other women. The film accompanies them through their desire to find and live, according to Sachi, their ‘freedom lives’—lives that are outside society and family’s constant scrutiny and sanction. But this ‘freedom life’ also leaves them vulnerable to the precariousness of love, when it refuses such constraints.

Yeh Freedom Life

2018