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Directed by
Rajat Nayyar

Countries of production
India Estonia

Year of production
2018

Duration
43 minutes

This film explores the aesthetics of dying, family as a unit of care, and taking the last vital breath in Kashi, India’s sacred city.

With Kashi Labh, Nayyar reflects upon his work with families who make a pilgrimage to Kashi. It uses audiovisual ethnography as a shared ontological approach to researching and understanding the imaginative lifeworlds family members as they await and confront the death of a parent.

Location(s) depicted
Varanasi

Language(s) of film subjects
HindiEnglish

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