Abstract
This article examines selected titles from a collection of colonial films shot in India between 1899 and 1947, preserved at the British Film Institute (BFI) National Archives. It tracks these films' changing cultural value from the time they entered the archive to their recent digitization and recontextualization in curatorial projects such as the 2017 UK-India Year of Culture. As part of this yearlong program, British Indian filmmaker Sandhya Suri repurposed these same films in her archival documentary Around India with a Movie Camera (2018). By subverting their intended meanings, Suri's film expands the BFI's curatorial discourses and advances what this article reads as a powerful experiment in decolonizing the film archive.
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