Shabnam Singla (she/her)
interdisciplinary social philosopher and filmmaker.I am interested in meaning-making, and how it gets influenced by hierarchies of knowledge and power. Who decides what counts as knowledge? Why do some narratives become the norms and others don't?Currently working as a filmmaking and documentation assistant at TYPA , a Printing and Paper Museum based in Tartu, Estonia. (Emotionally, you can spot me somewhere between—the trams of Vienna, snow-sledging in Tartu, filming on lombard street in San Francisco, or eating laphing in MKT in Delhi, strolling by the museum mile of New York or planning a trip to sukhna lake in Chandigarh.)Originally from Chandigarh, India, I did my master's in Philosophy with a minor in Filmmaking at Central European University in Vienna, Austria. Before that, I did my undergrad in Philosophy at St. Stephen's College, Delhi.Find below links to indulge in my love for camera, visuals, words, and venn diagrams!What am I up to at the moment? Feel free to message me.CV (Nov 2024)
Films I made
Quears
My documentary film capturing different people's relationship to earrings, expanding on subtle nuances of queer performativity, power, privilege, representations, and more.
Films I made
Unboxing Gender
A group project capturing a non-binary boxer's relationship with boxing and gender, and how intersectionality of social class and queerness might sometimes make you feel safer in traditionally conservative, male spaces.
Photos I took
TYPA Printing Studio
Here are some of the photos I took during my time at TYPA, Paper and Printing Museum, Tartu, Estonia. Includes event photography, product photography, documentation of archival materials.
Videography
The Magic Circle, Berlin
A documentary capturing what's it like to a magician as a female in the male-dominated world of magic. Filmed in Berlin.
academic research work
Philosophy Thesis
Title: (Who should bear) the burden of bridging the conceptual gaps between the marginalised and the dominant?
Key areas: social epistemology, feminist philosophy
Thesis written during my master's in Philosophy at Central European University, Vienna.
My research work
Essays
Find here a few written works for courses, conferences, journals.
comics and VENN DIAGRAMS
How to do things with dots, circles & lines?
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interviews and words I said
words in media
Some interviews where I talk about myself, my thoughts, more. (They may or may not reflect my current views!)