Love Letter/Prēma Lēkha

2015

Film By:
Neelu Bhuman

Sound: 
Mukul (http://ambienttv.net/)

Lips & Fingers:
Mijke Drift & Neelu Bhuman

Text :
ZAMI: A New Spelling of My Name. Book by Audre Lorde

Translation:
Kusuma Kumari Palavali

An abstract film exploring gender and race through the power of erotics and love.

Read Mijke Drift's essay here.

Duration: 5 mins. 15 secs.
Production Format: 16:9 1080p 24FPS
Exhibition Format: DCP (NTSC/PAL), Blu-Ray (NTSC/PAL) 

Official Selections & Awards: 

Best Film in Graphics Arts category, CHOUFTOUHONNA, Tunis 2nd Edition International Feminist Art Festival, Mad'Art, Tunis, Tunisia

Screenings:

2016 Bangalore Queer Film Festival, Bangalore, India

2016 AKS FESTIVAL, Karachi+Lahore+Islamabad, Pakistan

2016 Millionaires can be trans* You are so brave* exhibition, Schwules Museum, Berlin, Germany

2016 As part of presentation 'Art and Activism' by Mijke van der Drift, Middlesex University, London, UK

2016 'Love Archive's' Conference, as part of Mijke van der Drift's paper 'Radical romanticism, violent Cuteness and the destruction of the World', Arts University Bournemouth, UK

2016 Malmö Queer Film Festival, Sweden

2016 'Radical romanticism, violent Cuteness and the destruction of the World' paper by Mijke van der Drift, Feminst Postgraduate Forum, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK

2016 CHOUFTOUHONNA, Tunis 2nd Edition International Feminist Art Festival, Mad'Art, Tunis, Tunisia

2016 Archives Matter Conference: Queer, Feminist and Decolonial Encounters, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK

2016 Queeristan: Autonomous Festival For Radical Queer Politics, Amsterdam, Nederlands

2016 Scottish Queer International Film Festival, Glasgow, UK

2016 Wotever DIY Film Festival, London, UK

2016 3rd I South Asian International Film Festival, San Francisco, USA

2016 Fringe! Queer Film and Arts Fest, London, UK

2016 Transformations Film Festival, Berlin, Germany

2016 Puerto Rico Queer Filmfest, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2016 Chennai Rainbow Film Festival, Chennai, India

2017 GLITCH Film Festival by Digital Desperados, Glasgow, UK

2017 TRANS l LATIONS 12th Seattle Transgender Film Festival, USA