"Mera Apna Sheher (My Own City)" documentary film screening by Sameera Jain at Studio Safdar, 2253-E Shadikhampur, New Ranjit Nagar > 6pm on 17th May 2012

Time : 6:00 pm

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Place : Studio Safdar, 2253-E Shadikhampur, New Ranjit Nagar, New Delhi-110008
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Directions : 
1. If coming from Rajiv Chowk, get off at Shadipur Metro station. Exit on same side as direction of train. On right small traffic light. Turn right. Go past SATYAM cinema. Reach T point. Turn left. Go to end of road. On right, opposite DMS(milk) booth look for the Janam banner.
2. From Shadipur metro take a cycle rickshaw and say “biyaasi number chaliye”. He will take you on same route above to Janam. Riksha takes ten rupees and four minutes.
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Event Details : Screening of Mera Apna Sheher (‘My Own City’) by Sameera Jain. 
The experience of a gendered urban landscape - where the gaze, the voice and the body are at all times under surveillance. What if the multiple surveillances were to be turned upon themselves to observe what is contained in the everyday.
The film explores whether there is a sense of ownership, of belonging to the city. Can a woman in the city, as she continuously negotiates the polarities of anxiety and comfort - be free?
Somewhere just under the surface of the `normal’ and in the lives of women cab drivers lie signs of reclamation of space and the gaze.
Filmmaker will be present for discussion. Presented by the Magic Lantern Foundation.

Duration : 64 min.

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