Our eyes as commonly tender : visual justice in the filmmaking of Pratibha Parmar / edited by Nydia A. Swaby & Pratibha Parmar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Swaby, Nydia A., editor.

Parmar, Pratibha, editor.

Kali Films, editor, compiler.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parmar, Pratibha--Criticism and interpretation.

Parmar, Pratibha.

Feminism and motion pictures.

Homosexuality and motion pictures.

Physical Description:

141 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Institute of Contemporary Arts, 2025.

Saratoga, CA : Sming Sming Books, 2025.

Contents:

Preface / Lubaina Himid

Introduction : to look again, more tenderly / Nydia A. Swaby

'books as art, discourse, exhibition, and archive' / Pratibha Parmar

Blasphemous connections / Lola Olufemi

Queer genealogies, diasporic intimacies / Ayatri Gopinath

Surfacing hope : survival, pleasure and creativity in the early films of Pratibha Parmar / Alina Khakoo & Shamira A. Meghani

'through a screen of blooms' : Alice Walker : beauty in truth as a field of possibilities / Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Hearing a place of rage : liner notes in vignettes / Lynnée Denise

'eyes glimmering through the smoke, piercing the silence' / Rebecca Close

Through a radical lens : Pratibha Parmar in conversation with Lubaina Himid at Tate Britain / Lucy Reynolds

Pratibha Parmar : selected filmography.

Notes:

Published to coincide with the season 'Our Eyes as Commonly Tender : Visual Justice in the Filmmaking of Pratibha Parmar', 2 July - 3 September 2025 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, as part of 'Connecting Thin Black Lines 1985-2025', 24 June - 7 September 2025.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781953189219

1953189210

OCLC:

1560089349