IN FOCUS—Beyond Bollywood: Perspectives on the South Asian Cinema Collection

Over the past two years, Project Film Specialists Erica Jones and Lydia Creech have processed, archived, and cataloged the majority of the South Asian Cinema Collection at the George Eastman Museum, including 532 out of 775 Indian film titles. With most of the films inspected and the end of the grant-funded project rapidly approaching, the museum faces broader questions about the future life of these important cultural objects.

Erica and Lydia discuss their accomplishments and provide perspectives about the importance of this collection and its preservation. This program also include interviews with other archivists, scholars of Indian cinema, and members of the diasporic community about the future potential uses of the collections, their memories and connections to South Asian cinema, and what the presence of this unique collection as part of the George Eastman Museum archive means to them.

This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services: Grant #MA-245614-OMS-20.

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