Our Eyes as Commonly Tender: Visual Justice in the Filmmaking of Pratibha Parmar

UK & EU ORDERS:PURCHASE DIRECTLY FROM ICA IN LONDON FOR LOWER SHIPPING RATES ISBN 978-1-953189-21-9September 2025, English, 7 x 9 inches, 148 pages, full color, softcoverDesign: Sming Sming Books Co-published with ICA!  Our Eyes as Commonly Tender: Visual Justice in the Filmmaking of Pratibha Parmar Pratibha Parmar’s films have shaped the politics of feminist, queer, and diasporic visual cultures for over four decades. From experimental shorts to activist documentaries and feature-length works, Parmar’s cinematic language operates as an act of visual justice. Her practice engages the image as a site of struggle—challenging the power relations that determine who is seen, how they are represented, and what forms of visual expression are made possible. Her films are a site of narrative transformation, where memory, activism, and artistic expression converge to resist erasure and imagine new futures. This book accompanies a season of Pratibha Parmar’s films at the Institute of Contempo