The Fellowships will support three projects to explore the theme The Other Side.

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We invite feminist enquiries, narratives, speculations and reflections on alternative, different, unconventional, unheard and neglected experiences, realities, connections, forms of knowledge, histories, livelihoods, beliefs, practices and routines of life and living. Despite being integral to our interconnected material, social, cultural, political and emotional lives and worlds, we render insignificant and peripheral, even adversarial, to our attention, discourses, conventions and articulations, the fragile, the marginal, the unexplored, the silenced and the othered. These make up sites of existence subject to hierarchies of self and other, insider and outsider, pure and impure, normal and deviant, life and death, mediated by our gender, caste, class, religion, sexual orientation, dis/ability, age, ethnicity, work and/ or region. Whether through fragmentary encounters or intense and in-depth engagements, we register, record and reaffirm these ordinaries routinely invisibilised, enabling conversations, possibilities, rituals and imaginings, which foreground the other side. 

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​We hope for these films to explore how these stories and experiences, individual and collective, challenging and liberating, across myriad locations, shifting contexts and solidarities, can find form, language and creative expression, even as they challenge mainstream and exclusionary understandings, boundaries and assumptions. How they can stake claim to being spoken about, chronicled and even being reimagined, reframed and resurrected.