{"id":4179,"date":"2025-03-16T03:33:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T22:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourcinema.in\/festival\/?page_id=4179"},"modified":"2025-03-16T16:22:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T10:52:17","slug":"in-loving-memory-of-tarun-bhartiya","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ourcinema.in\/festival\/in-loving-memory-of-tarun-bhartiya\/","title":{"rendered":"In Loving Memory of Tarun Bhartiya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


Us desh ko bhool jao<\/em>
Jaise us Masjid ko bhool gaye ho<\/em>

[Forget about that homeland
The same way you’ve forgotten about that Masjid]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Tarun Bhartiya<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Titled \u2018Desh\u2019, this was Tarun\u2019s last and briefest poem, written on December 6th<\/sup>, 2024, and circulated to his friends on WhatsApp. We lost Tarun in January 2025 to a cardiac arrest. The very same day that he was slated to do his second and last session in the Masterclass@KPFF2025 workshop on political documentary. Tarun\u2019s absence will sit heavy on the political documentary space in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tarun Bhartiya was a multifaceted artist\u2014documentary filmmaker, film editor, photographer, poet\u2014and political activist based in Shillong, in the Khasi hills. Tarun’s films include \u2018La Mana\u2019, \u2018Brief Life of Insects\u2019, \u2018The Last Train in Nepal\u2019, \u2018Darjeeling Himalayan Railway\u2019, \u2018Tourist Information for Shillong\u2019, and music videos for several Shillong-based bands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an editor Tarun worked on notable films with filmmakers like Vasudha Joshi (\u2018Girl Song\u2019, \u2018Songlines\u2019, \u2018Cancer Katha\u2019), Sanjay Kak (\u2018Red Ant Dream\u2019, \u2018Jashn-e-Azadi\u2019) and Ranjan Palit (\u2018In Camera\u2019). In 2015, when he returned his National Award for Best Editing for \u2018In Camera\u2019 in protest against the state fascism, he quoted the story of Kong Spelity Lyngdoh Langrin, 90-year-old matriarch of the tiny village of Domiasiat, who rejected millions in lease fees by the UCIL and refused to allow Uranium mining in the hills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tarun\u2019s photographs and image essays have been published in magazines and as covers of many books. His poems and their translations have appeared in various anthologies including \u2018Dancing Earth: Contemporary poetry from North East India\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

He was a member of Thma U Rangli Juki (TUR), a progressive people’s group in Meghalaya that works with hawkers and vendors unions and in solidarity with anti-mining and anti-land grab movements, and a founder-member of the Raiot webzine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides all else, he was a fierce advocate of independent screening spaces for political cinema, which naturally led to his friendship with the People\u2019s Film Collective. He joined us as a participating filmmaker in the KPFF, as a panelist on alternative new media and its possibilities, and as a teacher in as many as three filmmaking workshops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Seeing like Tarun Bhartiya<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNiam \/ Faith \/ Hyn\u00f1iewtrep: Unaddressed Picture Postcards From Khasi-Jaintia Hills\u201d<\/mark><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/a><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Screening of<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brief Life of Insects<\/mark><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Us desh ko bhool jaoJaise us Masjid ko bhool gaye ho [Forget about that homelandThe same way you’ve forgotten about that Masjid] \u2014 Tarun Bhartiya Titled \u2018Desh\u2019, this was Tarun\u2019s last and briefest poem, written on December 6th, 2024, and circulated to his friends on WhatsApp. We lost Tarun in January 2025 to a cardiac […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"tpgb_global_settings":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4179","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"tpgb_featured_images":null,"tpgb_post_meta_info":{"get_date":"March 16, 2025","get_modified_date":"March 16, 2025","author_name":"ourcinema-wp-admin","author_url":"https:\/\/www.ourcinema.in\/festival\/author\/ourcinema-wp-admin\/","author_email":"saptarshi.c80@gmail.com","author_website":"","author_description":"","author_facebook":"","author_twitter":"","author_instagram":"","author_role":[],"author_firstname":"","author_lastname":"","user_login":"ourcinema-wp-admin","author_avatar":"","author_avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/61cb0c0f965cd0fb68831b185e6e217ea5f44237d21eacd6ed7aa9b874407821?s=96&d=mm&r=g","comment_count":0,"post_likes":0,"post_views":0},"tpgb_post_category":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourcinema.in\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourcinema.in\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourcinema.in\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourcinema.in\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourcinema.in\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourcinema.in\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4353,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourcinema.in\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4179\/revisions\/4353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourcinema.in\/festival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}