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Reception Room, Wing D Film Screening
Synopsis
Inside the small waiting room of a large government office in New Delhi, India, the film follows the receptionists receiving the arriving public as they navigate the labyrinthian bureaucracy beyond. As files, food, chai, sweets, and gossip circulate between people, an intimate portrait of the state emerges. It raises a deeper moral question: What is the state’s duty of care?
About the Film Makers
Dr Ikuno Naka is a postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Economic Experimentation and the Constructing Urban Futures in Asia (CUFA) research group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.
Dr Garima Jaju is a Lecturer at the Department of International Development at King’s College London.
Free and open to all. Note, this will not be accessible online.