An Election Diary is a revealing glimpse into the 2019 electoral campaign of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in a suburban constituency in Northern India. Blending street interviews, YouTube video clips and recordings of cadre meetings, the film explores the BJP's multi-pronged electoral efforts not just through social media outreach, but also by getting people to voting booths on
election day. Avijit Mukul Kishore's resolutely local, dispassionately curious film documents the mechanics of a cog in what is called 'India's Greatest Election Machine'. A must see for anyone interested in politics, governance, electoral democracy, political economy, gender, documentary film making, media studies and mediated organizing and, of course, South Asia.
election day. Avijit Mukul Kishore's resolutely local, dispassionately curious film documents the mechanics of a cog in what is called 'India's Greatest Election Machine'. A must see for anyone interested in politics, governance, electoral democracy, political economy, gender, documentary film making, media studies and mediated organizing and, of course, South Asia.
Award-winning filmmaker, cinematographer, interdisciplinary moving image practitioner and teacher Avijit Mukul Kishore will join us from Mumbai on Zoom to answer questions about the film. He has directed or been the cinematographer for at least 45 films, and worked on visual art projects with some of South Asia's leading artists and film makers.
Sponsored by the Department of Politics, the Taraknath Das Funds and CGII