An Irreversible Other
by Mark Wilby | 2020 | 6min 22s
Within this filmic artwork, transient fabric traces connect emptied university spaces with the woman academic whose familial stories include resistance to the othering they experienced as categorised members of a Scheduled Tribe in India. A dialogue is created between that postcolonial context and South Africa, with various aural and visual associations, including the bygone and current tools of surveillance, documentation and projection, and eery colonial and modernist architectural structures.
This academic has spoken and written publicly about casteism and higher education in West Bengal, and how “the Santhals continue to bear the literary or cinematic burden of… cultural stereotypes” (Murmu 2019).
