Shorts
Letter From Your Far-Off Country
Suneil Sanzgiri
United States, India 2020
18 min
OV w/ EN subtitles
V'21
The poem by Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali starts as follows: “This letter will not reach you.” The film explores the relationship between poetry and political struggle. What are the linkages between? How do they shape identity? And how does identity shape them in turn? From the vantage point of the year he was born, Sanzgiri explores these questions by collecting the history that materializes from events and their mediations. The different layers of analog and digital turn into ways of fighting the ungraspability of memory, while the poem continues: This letter, insh’Allah, will reach you. (Lucía Salas)
With BICENTENARIO.
Credits
- Suneil Sanzgiri
- Suneil Sanzgiri
- Suneil Sanzgiri
- Amirtha Kidambi
- Lea Bertucci
- Booker Stardrum
- Shashi Sanzgiri
Suneil Sanzgiri
Suneil Sanzgiri
DCP
Farbe/SW
Wed
27
Oct
