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    Nandini Sikand 2001 US Documentary b/w 8min English VHS
    n this highly personal and visually evocative testimonial, critically acclaimed South Asian filmmaker Nandini Sikand poignantly presents her sister's triumphal recovery from the emotional and physical scars of breast cancer. Lyrically incorporating poetry, experimental video and Super-8 montage, this moving piece looks at the myth of Amazonian women – warriors who were said to have cut off their right breast to become better archers – and compares their legendary battles to the war being waged against breast cancer.

    Director

    Nandini Sikand

    Nandini Sikand is an Associate Professor at an interdisciplinary film and media studies program at Lafayette College, a liberal arts school in Pennsylvania. Sikand's documentary and experimental films have screened and won awards at over 100 domestic and international film festivals. She also produced the documentary Mahasweta Devi: Witness, Advocate, Writer (2001). She served on the board of directors of Women Make Movies, a non-profit feminist media distribution organization from 1997-2006 and was on the Fulbright IIE National Selection committee for film and video for 2008-2011.

    Nandini Sikand

    INSIDE/OUTSIDE (2019) 

    ONE, IF BY LAND (2015) 

    SLIGHTEST SHIFTS (2012) 

    CRANES OF HOPE (2011) 

    SOMA GIRLS (2009) 

    AMAZONIA (2001) 

    MAHASWETA DEVI (2001) 

    DON’T FENCE ME IN (1998) 

    THE BHANGRA WRAP (1994)

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