Flickering Lights
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Directed by Anirban Dutta and Anupama Srinivasan | 90 mins | 2023
Electricity is coming to a tiny village located in Nagaland, in north-eastern India—one of the material impacts of the 2015 Naga Peace Accord, intended to quell the activities of the region’s deep-rooted separatist insurgent movement. Work began on "Flickering Lights" that same year: belying the great difficulty of shooting in a remote and volatile region without power, it is a meditative chronicle of this infrastructural change and its political implications.
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