On, For, With Structure: Tanya Lukin Linklater’s <em>My Mind is With the Weather</em>

Guha, Malini

Malini Guha

Malini Guha is an Associate Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University. Her research and teaching are broadly concerned with spatiality and the cinema, with an emphasis on postcolonial and post-imperial modes of mobility, migration, displacement and settlement. Recent publications include a chapter on the narratives of return in the films of Ousmane Sembene and Djibril Diop Mambety in Cinematic Homecomings: Exile and Return in Transnational Cinema as well as her monograph, From Empire to the World: Migrant London and Paris in Cinema, published by Edinburgh University Press in 2015. Her current research project addresses the history of location shooting in the city of Kolkata.

no. 4, Screening Canada, vol. 7November 16, 2022<November 16, 2022

On, For, With Structure: Tanya Lukin Linklater’s My Mind is With the Weather

Malini Guha

Malini Guha explores the work of the Alutiiq artist Tanya Lukin Linklater and reflects on her preoccupation with different kinds of structure across installations, performance, poetry, and video art.

Commentary, no. 2, vol. 6April 6, 2021<April 14, 2021

Projections that Give: Cauleen Smith’s COVID Manifesto (2020)

Malini Guha

Malini Guha discusses filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist Cauleen Smith's month-long projection COVID Manifesto. She argues that, unlike methods of surplus accumulation that ensure neoliberal capitalism, the piece gives viewers time to pause, process, and grieve during the pandemic without asking for anything in return.

no. 2, Screening Canada, vol. 5July 5, 2020<July 14, 2020

Revisiting Lists in a Time of Rebellion

Malini Guha

What are the potentials and pitfalls of the list in a moment of rebellion? Malini Guha looks at the cultural politics of the anti-racist film list in the context of Black Lives Matter.

no. 3, Screening Canada, vol. 4October 12, 2019<October 15, 2019

Infrastructural Sovereignty: IsumaTV at the 2019 Venice Art Biennale

Malini Guha

Malini Guha discusses how IsumaTV's exhibition at the 2019 Venice Art Biennale manifests notions of infrastructural media sovereignty.

no. 1, Screening Canada, vol. 4February 20, 2019<February 20, 2019

‘Unceded’ as Elsewhere: Indigenous-Led Concepts of Architecture at the 2018 Venice Architectural Biennale

Malini Guha

Malini Guha explores the recent Venice Architectural Biennale through the Turtle Island Pavilion, where land is wrested from a settler colonial and neoliberal conception of ownership and imagined instead in terms of community building and indigenous sovereignty

no. 1, Screening Canada, vol. 3February 14, 2018<February 14, 2018

The World Is Not Enough

Malini Guha

In our new "Screening Canada" column, Malini Guha reflects on world building as a politically progressive counter to nationalism at the recent Canadian and International Biennial.

Counterparts, no. 2, vol. 2June 9, 2017<June 9, 2017

The Space Between: ‘Rethinking Canada 150: Networks and Nodes in Asian Canadian Visual Culture’

Malini Guha

Malini Guha discusses a recent symposium on Asian Canadian identities and the spaces, nodes, and networks of diaspora.

no. 4, Remembrance, vol. 1August 31, 2016<January 17, 2017

The Practice of the Interdisciplinary: A Tribute to Doreen Massey

Malini Guha

Malini Guha remembers Doreen Massey, and explores how Massey's contention that the politics of space is the politics of difference resonated throughout her career, her activism, and her impact on geography and film studies