Documentary Films in India: Critical Aesthetics at Work

About Aparna Sharma

Aparna Sharma is a documentary practitioner and scholar. Her documentaries take up cultural narratives of Indian communities combining techniques of ethnographic and montage film. She is also interested in collaborating with dance and performance artists to create performance and documentary dialogues. As a scholar she is committed to writing about cinema practices that fall outside mainstream cinema. She teaches video practice combining film and cultural theory at UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance.