Measure of Impunity at Rubin Museum, New York

‘A measure of Impunity’, directed by Maulee Senapati and produced and scripted by Sanjoy Hazarika, C-NES managing trustee,  was screened at the Rubin Museum in New York recently.  The event on Sept 25 drew a focused audience which asked many questions of the discussant after the film.

‘It was a great program overall,’ said Dr. Matt Fetter, Director of Programming at the prestigious American art museum.  The Museum requested Dr. Nimmi Gowrinathan, a Political Scientist based in the US, who focuses on gender and violence, particularly during insurgencies to respond to and answer questions from the audience on issues raised by the doucmentary, including conflict and its impact on women, especially in Nagaland and Assam. 

Many of the questions from the audience focused around the issue of rape and how various communities react to women who were raped;  this was apparently the the aspect of the film that affected the audience the most. 

This is Hazarika’s second film to be screened at the museum, one of the leading museums of the United States; ‘A River’s Story, the Quest for the Brahmaputra’ was screened in 2006; the director of the river documentary is the acclaimed film maker Jahnu Barua while Hazarika also produced and scripted it.

The Brahmaputra film followed the river through its long journey across Tibet, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Bangladesh before it ends in the Bay of Bengal.