Abstract
Aparna Sharma’s Kamakha: Through Prayerful Eyes is a lyrical documentary which explores the dilemma of representing the unrepresentable figure of the Goddess Kamakhya enshrined in an ancient fertility worship site in Northern Assam. The Temple of Kamakhya is unique in offering no image of the devi or goddess. Instead her yoni or female organs are said to be contained in a sacred rock which is also the source of a natural spring. The rock, which is covered by a red cloth, is not allowed to be photographed or filmed, but devotees are instead invited to touch it. Intrigued by this haptic form of devotion and the very invisibility of this female icon in the context of theories of woman as image / “to-be-looked-at-ness”, Aparna’s film skirts around the temple, observing worshippers’ interaction with the space and interviewing local craftsmen and artists about their interpretation of the site.
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