Moinak Biswas is Professor of Film Studies at Jadavpur University. He is also the Coordinator of the Media Lab, a centre for experiments in digital forms, at Jadavpur. He writes on Indian cinema and culture. Among his publications are Apu and After, Revisiting Ray’s Cinema (2006) and Ujan gang baiya (2018). He edits the Journal of the Moving Image. He has written and co-directed the award-winning Bengali feature film Sthaniya Sambaad (2010), and has more recently created the installation Across the Burning Track, commissioned for the 11th Shanghai Biennale, 2016.