Sutapa Biswas: Lumen
15 February 2022
Sutapa BiswasYale Center for British ArtYale UniversityLumen 2021Women in filmartist filmmakercontemporary artSutapa Biswas Fellow Association for Art History
"Sutapa Biswas's visually stunning new film draws on her family’s departure from India in the mid-1960s and creates a poetic reflection on the experience of migration and the feelings of rupture, dislocation, longing, and belonging. The journey by sea from India to England with her mother and siblings was a formative experience for the four-year-old Biswas. The vivid images she has retained of that crossing—and her mother’s anxieties and fears for her children and their future—are revisited through the film’s powerful narrative.' Screening, YCBA, Yale University ,Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 8:30 am–Monday, February 21, 2022, 11:59 pm