The Silence of the Satluj: Censorship, Memory, and the Cinematic Battle Over Punjab’s Disappeared
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In the landscape of contemporary Indian cinema, few films have carried as much political weight or faced as much institutional resistance as Honey Trehan’s Satluj. Originally titled Punjab ’95, the film serves as a biographical account of Jaswant Singh…
The Architecture of Memory: Ross McElwee’s ‘Remake’ and the Ethics of the First-Person Lens
Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during the 2025 Venice Film Festival. Music Box Films releases “Remake” in U.S. theaters starting Friday, July 10. Long before the video diary became the en vogue format of personal expression on…
