Moving image installation, the embodied spectator of cinema and Amar Kanwar: Learning from intermediality

Published in New Cinema: Journal of Contemporary Films, Vol-12, No. 3, 2014, pp. 225-238

Abstract

This article juxtaposes cinema and moving image installation to question the ways cinema studies has understood embodied spectatorship. Through a close study of Amar Kanwar’s

Content and context

When you view Amar Kanwar's The Lightning Testimonies [1] as a single channel, 'whole' documentary film as part of the Bombay Ki Kahani, Mumbai Ki Zubaani [2] campaign in 2012-2013, remembering the .1992-93 Bombay violence at the Women's Development Cell of Mumbai University, you