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Ritika @suninthebelly.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

LA folks, don't miss this Thursday's screening of short experimental films from India: 'Nation and its Fragments' co-curated by Sean Batton and me at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

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Topiary Land @topiaryland.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

The final episode of the podcast Animal-Vegetable-Mineral: A Podcast About All Things Documentary is now out -- our conversation with the Moroccan film director Asmae El Moudir about her fascinating film "The Mother of All Lies." Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/43rH...

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Ritika @suninthebelly.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

📣Here's the third episode of our podcast series "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: A Podcast About All Things Documentary". Of the interviews for our series, this one is, in some sense, the closest to this podcast’s concerns about the relationship between documentary film and the world. Happy Listening!

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Topiary Land @topiaryland.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

The 3rd episode of "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: A Podcast About All Things Documentary" features a fascinating interview with the Italian eco-filmmaker Michelangelo Frammartino. Check it out! @suninthebelly.bsky.social @alisalebow.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0E4K...

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An interview with Italian eco-filmmaker Michelangelo Frammartino

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Ritika @suninthebelly.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

📣Friends, we are so excited to share episode two of our podcast "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: A Podcast About All Things Documentary." Go give it a listen and do share your feedback!

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Topiary Land @topiaryland.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The 2nd episode of "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: A Podcast About All Things Documentary": open.spotify.com/episode/4JY8... featuring Alisa's interview with Deirdre Boyle on her new book about Rithy Panh, Cambodia's most important filmmaker. @alisalebow.bsky.social, @suninthebelly.bsky.social

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Deirdre Boyle on her new book about Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh

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Ritika @suninthebelly.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Friends heading to SCMS Chicago, please come to our Friday morning panel "Videographic Approaches to Indian Cinema" organized by Neepa Majumdar, and with Anupama Prabhala, and Pavitra Sundar. Here's a little sneak peek on what I am presenting

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Ritika @suninthebelly.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Podcast sponsored by Reframe, University of Sussex Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts reframe.sussex.ac.uk/avm1/

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Animal-Vegetable-Mineral – A podcast about all things documentary

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Ritika @suninthebelly.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

In Ep.1 of Animal Vegetable Mineral: A Podcast About All Things Documentary, co-hosts @topiaryland.bsky.social and @alisalebow.bsky.social along with special guest Toby Ashworth talk about Sara Dosa’s film Fire of Love (2022) and Werner Herzog’s requiem The Fire Within (2022). tinyurl.com/3deckwcd

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The Double Take—The Two Volcano Films from 2022: “Fire of Love” (Sara Dosa) and “The Fire Within” (Werner Herzog) – Animal-Vegetable-Mineral

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Ritika @suninthebelly.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Introducing 📣 Animal Vegetable Mineral: A Podcast About All Things Documentary A series of four audio episodes that delve into some of the current themes and debates in the field of documentary studies. Co-produced by: @alisalebow.bsky.social @topiaryland.bsky.social, and me.

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Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Congratulations to FTV’s Tiago de Luca and Chris O’Rourke, who are both shortlisted for the ‘Best Article or Chapter’ award for BAFTSS 2025.

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michael metzger @mmcnma.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Just announced: Block Cinema hosts an offsite screening of THE WAITING ROOM, Karen Sperling's dreamlike narrative feature shot inside a mental institution by a 53-woman crew in 1973 and never released. Filmmaker in attendance! Screening 4/3 at Abbott Hall in downtown Chicago. RSVP bit.ly/NUSperl

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Cristina Formenti @drcriformenti.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Out now… and in open access! It can be read and download here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Ritika @suninthebelly.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

This Wednesday at University College London

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Ritika @suninthebelly.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Friends in London, I will be giving a talk titled " State-Sponsored Documentary Asks the Woman’s Question" at UCL on the 29th. Hope to see some familiar faces there. www.ucl.ac.uk/european-lan...

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UCL Film Studies Speaker Series: Ritika Kaushik (University of Warwick)

State-Sponsored Documentary Asks the Woman’s Question: Developmental Montage and Configurations of Indian Women.

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Ritika @suninthebelly.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

In week 2, we looked at Soviet Montage and watched my all time favourite Fragment of an Empire (Fridrikh Ermler, 1929). This clip does not do justice to a montage that is about a 150 shots but I am sharing it anyway as it is one of the best scenes in film history.

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Ritika @suninthebelly.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

We began with Bill Morrison's Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016) to lay out the relations between film and history. It was helpful to take the students through Sobchack's What is Film History? and show clips from The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille.

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Ritika @suninthebelly.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Teaching a film history and methods module for non-major students this term. It is a peculiar challenge to get them interested in film history but also get them excited about historical methods. Welcoming suggestions on what readings people use. I will be sharing weekly what we are doing in class

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Ritika @suninthebelly.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Was missing some books and thought I would reread them, only to realize that we gave them away in the frenzy of scaling down during moving. It is that feeling of missing a friend whom you can no longer reach

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a cartoon character is sitting at a desk with her eyes closed and a pearl necklace .

ALT: a cartoon character is sitting at a desk with her eyes closed and a pearl necklace .

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Ritika @suninthebelly.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

If you are attending the Visible Evidence XXX conference, do come for our panel "De-centering Histories and Geographies: New Practices and Aesthetics in Indian Non-fiction". I am presenting online and now need to calculate how much caffeine I need to be alert at 5:00 am BST

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Ritika @suninthebelly.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

tomorrow on my South Asian Cinema module

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Ritika @suninthebelly.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

It has been such a privilege to have been part of the first GC group for the past three years and contribute to the VE community, which I value so much!

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Ritika @suninthebelly.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Topiary Landberg, @jmalitsky.bsky.social, and I just had our last meeting as elected members of the Visible Evidence Governing Council. Cheers to the incoming members Ilona Hongisto, Kim Munro, and Narmeen Ijaz and the exciting road ahead! www.visibleevidence.org/visible-evid...

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Ritika @suninthebelly.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Great! Would love to be added to the classic cinema list. I teach film history and analysis

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Ritika @suninthebelly.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

tell me you are an academic without telling me you are an academic

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Ritika @suninthebelly.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Is there a region or period you are looking at? This exquisite song shot in color for the black and white film Mughal-E-Azam (1960, K Asif). Note the use of gazes into the camera, eyeline matches, and the mirrors. youtu.be/uASs1_CrBnE?...

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Jab Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya (जब प्यार किया तो डरना क्या ) Video Song || Mughal-E-Azam Movie Songs

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Ritika @suninthebelly.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

2023-24 brought most of the leading specialists on Satyajit Ray to Frankfurt. While in Frankfurt the speakers also participated in a research seminar entitled "Inida as method", which will soon come out as a book from meson.press/series-page/... satyajit-ray.de

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Lecture & Film - Ein Auge für die Welt: Die Filme von Satyajit Ray - Ein Auge für die Welt: Die Filme von Satyajit Ray

Lecture & Film im Kino des Deutschen Filminstitut und Filmmuseum. Das Kino von Satyajit Ray“ im Zeitalter nach der Globalisierung.

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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

One of my all time favourite video essays is on YouTube: Maryam Tafakory's 2020 work IRANI BAG. "Collating scenes of mediated intimacy in Iranian cinema, Maryam Tafakory's 'Irani Bag' is a quietly moving instruction on 'how to touch without touching'" [Essay Film Festival] youtu.be/jz7nOzBv7eE?...

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Irani Bag / کیف ایرانی by Maryam Tafakory

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