Article: From "their eves" to "new eves": suffering victims and cultivated aesthetics in born into brothels.(Born Into Brothels movie)

Born Into Brothels may be an ideal test case for certain questions about the state of documentary: an independent movie that won an Academy Award, a narrative crowd-pleaser with a real-world agenda, a work shot on video about the uses of film--it embodies and engages a range of contradictions and paradoxes. Directed by British photojournalist Zana Briski and US film editor Ross Kauffman, the film follows Briski's project of teaching photography to a group of children who live in Sonagachi-Calcutta, India's red-light district--as well as Briski's efforts to get these children of sex workers admitted into boarding schools. Perhaps the film's central paradox is its reliance ...

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