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Golden Jubilee

Suneil Sanzgiri’s recent video trilogy is shown here, in full, for the first time. The series is bookended by his attempts to recreate the landscapes of his father’s birth place in Curchorem, Goa. All three films utilise an aesthetics of distance and proximity to gesture to tensions, possibilities and replications when we search for ourselves in the remnants of colonial histories.

Director

Countries

Year

2021

Premiere

Dialogue Languages

English Konkani

Subtitle Language

Primary Contact

Suneil Sanzgiri

Duration

18 mins

Director of photography

Sumedh Sawant

At Home but Not at Home

Sanzgiri’s first part of the trilogy unfolds to consider what one does with regret and to ask: what is the correct distance from which to examine its insights? In this film, emails, texts and skype recordings provide attempts at a remote connection with the landscape of his father’s village in Goa, which he has never visited.

Director

Countries

Year

2020

Dialogue Languages

English Hindi

Subtitle Language

Primary Contact

Suneil Sanzgiri

Duration

11 mins

Letter From Your Far-Off Country

In Letter from your far off country, Sanzgiri draws lines of solidarity that emerge from lineages of political commitment in his family. The film finds its purpose in a “found” connection and epistolary exchange: a letter addressed to a “distant” relative Communist Party leader Prabhakar Sanzgiri, and a poem, Dear Shahid, by Kashmiri poet Agha Shahid Ali.

Director

Country

Year

2020

Dialogue Languages

English Hindi Urdu

Subtitle Language

Primary Contact

Suneil Sanzgiri

Duration

18 mins