Lipika Singh Darai

Early life and education Darai was born in Damasahi, Odisha, India to both parents from the Ho indigenous community. She is based in Bhubaneswar.

Darai graduated from Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in 2010, specialising in sound recording and design.

Career

Recording Darai started her career as a sound recordist for a Hindi short film Gaarud In 2023, she made her second film essay called Raati o Bhaya (Night and Fear) produced by writer/producer Subravanu Das.

Art and Research Projects Lipika assisted Indraneel Lahiri in a year long Research Project (2012-2013) on Puppetry of Odisha. The research work was conducted with a fellowship under National Folklore Support Centre, Chennai.

Lipika was selected among various Artists across India for a project called Listening to the city under City as Studio Programme (2013) by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies's Sarai Project.

Lipika participated in Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in 2017as a filmmaker and Visual Artist with her film essay Dragonfly and Snake.

Lipika authored the essay "Making Films from and about the Margins''" in Resistance in Indian Documentary Film, published by Edinburgh University Press, in 2024, a book that explores various forms of resistance in contemporary Indian documentary cinema.

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