Yugantar website design

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Y U G A N T A R W E B S I T e D E S I G N

the charge of activism and rigour of research

A revival archive for India’s first feminist film collective. The website was realized within Archive außer sich, a project of Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art E.V, Berlin. Yugantar was founded by Abha Bhaiya, Deepa Dhanraj, Meera Rao and Navroze Contractor in 1980. Post a restoration project, the films of the collective needed a place on the web, which could act as a resource for film studies students and be easily accessible for screening for the worker unions in India. ICD collaborated with the researcher Nicole and filmmaker Deepa Dhanraj, one of the founders of Yugantar to design the website.

the story of india’s first feminist film collective and its revival

Hand-drawn posters that show the urgent and self-organised character of the movements that were taking place around the time Yugantar’s films were getting made—a time of women-led change. Reflecting the self-organised nature of the women-led movements which Yugantar acknowledges as the catalysts that led to its founding.

a living, continuing space for the collective

The Yugantar website will provide updates about the collective’s activities going ahead—letting visitors stay connected with Yugantar

stream and read about the films

There is a dedicated space to stream and read about each of Yugantar’s four films. The website will be used to screen the films to new audiences, primarily women-led groups—a key vision of researcher Nicole Wolf and filmmaker Deepa Dhanraj.