'...I am the silver lining on your fucking cloud... as I fight for my life I will also fight for yours...'

The challenge was to create a visual poem about encountering a land never accurately seen nor imagined. While dealing with the incredible loss of what might be remembered by never regained, my desire was to create an honest vision which challenges traditional misrepresentations of India. 'New View, New Eyes' was shot on location in Bombay, Udaipur, Lucknow, Delhi and Toronto's Honest Ed's Department Store. 'New View, New Eyes' is a weaving of poetry, conversation and journal entry. An original score of music by Sheila James and other soundscapes provides a divergent foundation for startling, clear and graceful imagery.

– Gitanjali

Gitanjali's new videotape offers an odyssey of India explored through direct vision, imagination, historical fact, memories real and unexplained and an unpredictable camera. The view from western eyes is problematised ironically, sadly, even cruelly as in the savage take-off of a Hare Krichna devotee in search of Disney-India. Hers is a perplexing and understated journey, teasing out the unexpected and wrenching and often juxtaposing them with images of startling beauty and clarity. The shape of a pot full of blue dye, a house suggesting indelible repose, the existential moment catching sweepers in the early dawn – images which resonate long afterwards. This is an intriguing video on the road to self discovery. It offers little resolution to the riddle of identity in the migratory 1990s, while it eloquently bares its persona's deep sense of unbelonging.

– Ramabai Espinet

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