Express Yourself | Monica Dogra | Short Film Nominee

Short Film Nominee August 16, 2020

Express Yourself

By Maaz Kazmi with 6.5

documentary · Short Films · english

“Creating a culture of fear around freedom of expression creates a culture of intolerance. Creating a culture of intolerance grows violence,” says singer, model Monica Dogra as she opens the video. Her comment is clearly a scathing critique of our cultural climate that has witnessed increasing polarisation in the last few years.

Through the cases of censorship and assaults on artists in the past, the film tries to elucidate this point. However, the narrative would have benefited from a little more nuance and focus on its subject matter, allowing it to be a deeper, more incisive and inclusive commentary on the same.
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