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Harjant Gill |
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Abstract: Milind Soman Made Me Gay dives into the memory-scape of four South Asian gay men living in Washington DC; one Hindu, one Muslim, one Christian and one Sikh… to reveal how each negotiates his sexual desire with his cultural and religious background. Underneath the nostalgic explorations of life back home lie harsh realities of homophobia and racism in America, and an on-going struggle to find a place of belonging. Production Date: 01/01/2007 Distributor: Tilotama Productions 1801 Clydesdale Pl. NW # 315 Washington DC 20009 Phone: 202-257-3999 Email / Website: harjantsgill@aol.com http://www.TilotamaProductions.com Film Credits: Produced in collaboration with Daniel Phoenix Singh & Ayush Gupta Running Time: 26 Medium: DVD Film Purpose: The film interweaves three documentary style interviews with experimental vignettes of the filmmaker recalling memories of his life back home and in America. The three interviews bring to light the subjective experiences of gay South Asians living in diaspora, each person trying to make sense of who they are and their relationship to home and diaspora. The vignettes problematizes the unilinear trajectory of assimilation in American culture by showing how sexual and ethnic minorities constantly feel marginalized and out of place in our society. Film Audience: Academics, South Asians (especially living in the diaspora), Gay and Lesbian viewers. Role of the Anthropologist / Collaboration: The director of the film, Harjant Gill is a doctoral student in Anthropology at American Univeristy. In addition to employing contemporary theorectial ideas on Nation, Diaspora, home, belonging, ethnicity, sexual and national citizenship, the film also uses auto-ethnography as a way of incorporating the director's own personal expericences to conceptualize the politics of indentity negotiations amongst Gay South Asian in America. Filmmaker/anthropologist: Harjant Gill, American University Keywords: Nation/Diaspora, South Asian, Gay and Lesbian |
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