ABSTRACT

Although documentary filmmaking in India has a long tradition, one rarely sees any serious engagement with LGBTIQ issues. However, in the recent times, a new body of LGBTIQ documentaries either by heterosexual directors or by filmmakers who identify themselves as LGBTIQ, using a variety of formalistic styles, foreground intimate and multiple expressions of LGBTIQ subjectivities in their films. As a filmmaker who approaches LGBTIQ issues from inside out, Debalina Majumdar belongs to such a group of distinguished LGBTIQ filmmakers who documents homophobic violence, queer desires and forgotten queer histories. Her documentary films celebrate queer lives, emphasizes LGBTIQ rights and imagines queer futures through forging a nonconformist visual politics and through a range of poetic articulations. For her, filmmaking is a practice of reclaiming suppressed LGBTIQ desires as well as a mode of institutionalizing LGBTIQ identities. Debalina Majumdar in the present interview with Rajesh James and Sathyaraj Venkatesan discusses her filmic self, her engagement with LGBTIQ resistance movements in India and her documentary practices.

摘要

尽管印度的纪录片制作有着悠久的传统，但很少有人认真对待 LGBTIQ 问题。然而，近来，由异性恋导演或自称为 LGBTIQ 的电影制片人制作的新系列 LGBTIQ 纪录片，在他们的电影中使用了各种形式主义风格，突出了 LGBTIQ 主体性的亲密和多重表达。作为一个从内到外处理 LGBTIQ 问题的电影制片人，Debalina Majumdar 属于这样一群杰出的 LGBTIQ 电影制片人，他们记录了恐同暴力、酷儿欲望和被遗忘的酷儿历史。她的纪录片颂扬酷儿生活，强调 LGBTIQ 的权利，并通过塑造不墨守成规的视觉政治和一系列诗意表达来想象酷儿的未来。为了她，电影制作是一种回收被压抑的 LGBTIQ 欲望的实践，也是一种将 LGBTIQ 身份制度化的模式。Debalina Majumdar 在接受 Rajesh James 和 Sathyaraj Venkatesan 的采访时讨论了她的电影自我、她与印度 LGBTIQ 抵抗运动的参与以及她的纪录片实践。