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    Maid Servant

    Yugantar Film Collective 1981 India Documentary b/w 27min DCP
    As Yugantar’s first film, Maid Servant inaugurates the group’s focus on domestic affairs and the power of processes of collectivization. The film exposes the oppressive working conditions of thousands of domestic workers in Pune. Through re-enactments of significant moments of the original process of unionizing, the film narrates the coming together of women workers and union activists to form the Pune City Domestic Workers Union to fight for their rights.

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    Yugantar Film Collective

    Yugantar Film Collective is India’s first feminist film collective. The all-female collective was founded in Bangalore by Abha BHAIYA, Deepa DHANRAJ, Meera RAO and Navroze CONTRACTOR in 1980, when India was going through a period of political transformation. Working collaboratively with existing or ensuing women’s groups, they produced four pioneering films and forged novel filmmaking practices, political vocabularies that still resonate today.

    Yugantar Film Collective

    1981 Maid Servant

    1982 Tobacco Embers

    1983 Sudesha

    1983 Is This Just a Story?

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