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DESCRIPTION:A guest lecture by Professor Natasha Reheja of Cornell Universi
 ty.  Co-sponsored with the Department of Anthropology.\n\nAbstract:  In th
 is talk\, I present my use of formal filmic techniques across two works to
  advance a visual argument about mobility and borders in South Asia. Borde
 rs are readily made legible through visual representations and material pr
 actices such as maps\, fences\, walls\, passports\, flags\, news coverage\
 , and the like. But what happens when one shuffles the narrative? I dice\,
  splice\, and recombine images of borders to generate a picture of the bor
 der that is not amenable to figurative absorption. Mainstream representati
 ons of the India-Pakistan border emphasize polarity\, but I show that the 
 border is a continuous space even as it is a marker of discontinuity. Spec
 ifically\, my stylistic use of juxtaposition\, montage\, glitch\, and spli
 t-screen exposes reductions and excesses of the nation-state order. I will
  screen from A Gregarious Species (2023\, 9 min) and Kitne Passports? (in-
 production) to convey how\, like the filmic cut\, the border produces a sh
 ared and segmented space. Culling together found footage and composing my 
 own images\, I argue that working within the visual medium itself can unra
 vel mental pictures about the fixity of borders.\n\nA Gregarious Species (
 2023\, 9 min):  What do bugs and borders have to do with each other? Bring
 ing together mobile phone videos of transboundary gregarious locust swarms
 \, political rallies\, and scientific webinars\, this found-footage\, expe
 rimental video raises questions about the selective porosity of borders am
 idst environmental crisis\, farmer insecurity\, and nationalism in South A
 sia.\n\nKitne Passports? (in production\, 15-min visual sample):  What doe
 s waiting for a welcome feel like? Follow four\, cross-caste Pakistani Hin
 du migrant families as they shift between minority and majority status\, n
 avigating uncertain futures in India.\n
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LOCATION:Room 160\, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue 
 Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Beyond the National Frame: Scenes from the Indo-Pak Border
URL:/isid/channels/event/beyond-national-frame-scenes-
 indo-pak-border-362086
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