I am Yet to See Delhi

Director: Humaira Bilkis
India | Hindi, Bengali
2014 | 20min | Colour
Subtitles: English
Saturday, Nov 7 Club House, 1:30 PM

I am Yet to See Delhi is a journey of exploration a new city. The filmmaker discovers the soul of the city not in its museums, mausoleums and architecture but in her relationship with its people. The process of looking at the new urban space offers the filmmaker a chance to relook at her own space, identity and cultural moorings. In Delhi to study film, the “I” listens for the breath of its residents on the streets, in the markets, outside the mosques, and at the tourist sites. Dissolving into these her own thoughts and feelings in the process, she makes the city resonate for us.

Humaira Bilkis

Humaira Bilkis is a Dhaka based independent filmmaker. Her interest in filmmaking revolves around the creative treatment of actuality. She uses her subjective view to explore a context, as she believes in multiple realities. After completing her graduation in Mass Communication she’s been making films for the last five years. She did a post grad diploma in Creative Documentary in Sri Aurobindo Center for Arts and Communication, Delhi. During this course she made some films, which are very anthropocentric and self-reflexive. Her films were screened in several film festivals around India. Besides, Humaira has also worked as an associate producer in several international documentaries. Now she is working in a short length non-fiction on the homosexual people in Bangladesh. Besides, she has been awarded the fund for a feature length documentary on the access to education of tea labors of Bangladesh.

Credits

Director: Humaira Bilkis
Cinematographer: Humaira Bilkis, Satendra Singh, Shagun Belwal
Screenwriter: Humaira Bilkis
Sound: Humaira Bilkis, Satendra Singh, Shagun Belwal