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Bedatri D. Choudhury

Bedatri studied Literature and Cinema in New Delhi and New York, and loves writing on gender, popular culture, films, and most other things. She lives in New York, where she eats cake, binge watches reruns of old TV shows, and makes notes about strangers she meets on the subway. You can give her a holler on Twitter @Bedatri.

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Documentaries About Remembrance and Cultural Celebration in the 2022 BlackStar Film Festival

by Bedatri D. Choudhury August 3, 2022August 4, 2022

This year’s program celebrates the resilience and joy in worldwide struggles against erasure and confinement.

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A Youthful Documentary Memoir Both Enthralls and Frustrates

by Bedatri D. Choudhury June 21, 2022June 23, 2022

For both good and bad, first-time filmmaker Rebeca Huntt is “the lens, the subject, the authority” of Beba.

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Filmmaker dream hampton Culls Memories From Detroit’s Flooded Basements

by Bedatri D. Choudhury May 15, 2022May 15, 2022

Her short film Freshwater is now playing at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.

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A New Documentary Explores the Life of Unheralded Civil Rights Activist Pauli Murray

by Bedatri D. Choudhury September 29, 2021October 1, 2021

Filmmakers Betsy West and Julie Cohen talk to Hyperallergic about Murray’s archives and holding themselves accountable as white women biographing a Black figure.

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There Are Now Not One But Two Documentaries About the Salvator Mundi Saga

by Bedatri D. Choudhury September 13, 2021September 13, 2021

Both The Lost Leonardo and Savior for Sale dig into how museums and galleries are not merely complicit with the unregulated art-industrial complex, but are necessary to it.

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Confronting Doubt with the Power of Shakespeare

by Bedatri D. Choudhury August 29, 2021August 27, 2021

Argentine director Matías Piñeiro’s Isabella is the latest in a string of offbeat films about the nature of performance and creativity.

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How Tennis Star Naomi Osaka Handles the Pressure of Competition

by Bedatri D. Choudhury July 22, 2021July 22, 2021

Garrett Bradley’s Netflix docuseries explores the tennis star as a vessel for other people’s love and aspirations.

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Satyajit Ray’s Portraits of Flawed Masculinity

by Bedatri D. Choudhury May 17, 2021May 17, 2021

Best-known in the West for works like The Music Room and the Apu Trilogy, here are some lesser-discussed Ray movies.

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Dots for Days: Kusama Blooms at the New York Botanical Garden

by Bedatri D. Choudhury April 8, 2021April 8, 2021

Cosmic Nature invites viewers to celebrate the artist’s joyful, creative energy after a year of loss and grieving.

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The Ugly History of Forced Sterilizations in Women’s Prisons

by Bedatri D. Choudhury October 21, 2020November 5, 2020

The new documentary Belly of the Beast is an investigation into modern-day eugenics in the US.

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The Boldly Feminine Gaze of Hiba Schahbaz

by Bedatri D. Choudhury September 29, 2020November 5, 2020

Schahbaz’s large-scale paintings, on view in her latest exhibition Dreaming, assert the right to claim and occupy space as a woman.

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Did You Know Helen Keller Was a Socialist?

by Bedatri D. Choudhury September 23, 2020November 5, 2020

The documentary Her Socialist Smile reconstructs Keller from an icon of vague, feel-good platitudes to the fiercely political woman she truly was.

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