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Noon Day Dispensary, a film that runs in a single shot, was filmed in 2014, at the government run free dispensary at Savda-Ghevra Resettlement Colony in Delhi, established in 2006, as part of a fellowship at IIHS, exploring urban resettlement and the ways in which a place settles. This video was part of several videos-in-making that were produced spontaneously and attempted to reclaim the style and philosophies of cinema-verite as a way to film and be in places.

        Noon Day Dispensary produces the ‘unsettling gaze’, as a possible cinematic gesture with which to respond to the systematic neglect of institutions within an anxious and burdened state. Through the ‘performance’ of the filmmaker and her frame, it also perhaps bears witness to a moment in the transition between being illegal occupants of the city, to being legally resettled, and the range of negotiations and subjectivities that accompanies this shift. 

 

Filmed and edited by Priya Sen
 

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