Exhibition
WHEN
February 26 - May 24, 2026
WHERE
The Project Space, The Arts Center
WHO
NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery
Open to the Public
A Room of Our Own is a memory project about women’s journey to become filmmakers in India. It reflects on their time spent at India’s premier film school, the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII).
“How do we remember our years as women students in a film institute? What do the films we dreamed of, the images we created, and the ideas that consumed us say about women’s place in cinema today?”
Deeply personal stories shared by more than 50 women film graduates across generations led us to explore the contours of the collective experiences of women learning to work in film. A Room of Our Own offers a subjective and intimate inquiry into our time as film students, pushing nostalgia to become revelatory of the “unremembered.”
This exhibition presents a curated selection of oral histories, photographs and film-related material to parse the ways in which film histories normalize deeply patriarchal film industries.
The FTII was founded in 1960, in Pune, as a public institution by the Government of India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. This bold move by the newly independent nation declared film as an integral part of India’s cultural heritage. The FTII has produced more than 6,000 graduates for India’s diverse film and television industries. Of these, approximately 600 are women.
Tuesday-Sunday, 12-8pm
Opening Reception: February 26, 7:30pm
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