Skin
Deep
Skin
Deep is an exploration of body images and self perception among
contemporary urban, middle class women in India - feelings of being
too dark, too fat, too old that everyone experiences and attempts
to come to terms with. In India, as elsewhere, a woman's identity
is first and foremost an extension of her physicality, whether
by societal dictates or her own complicity. The film traces the
dynamics of the eternal search for the ideal femininity and how
it permeates the self-image of contemporary women. Shot in the
form of a "docu-feature", it recreates interviews with
various women into six first-person narratives which comprise the
structure of the film. It is a playful, engrossing and articulate
film on women's complicated and contradictory relationships with
their bodies.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Reena
Mohan is a graduate of the Film and Television Institute
of India and is the editor of a number of acclaimed non-fiction
films. Her first directorial work was Kamlabai, based on the
life of the first actress of Indian cinema. This film won the
National Award and the Best Film by a Debutante Director Award
in MIFF.
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India,
1998
83 min
Beta Color
Hindi, English
Marathi, Tamil
Bengali
Subtitled
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Direction
Reena Mohan
Camera
Ranjan Palit
K.V. Mohanan
Editing
Arjun Gourisaraiya
Reena Mohan
Sound
P. M. Sateesh
Script
Paromita Vora
Production
Majlis Production
Majlis
Manch
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