Letter From Your Far-Off Country
Suneil Sanzgiri
Ce film fait partie de la carte blanche de Joyce Joumaa, co-présentée avec MOMENTA Biennale de l’image et grâce au soutien du Conseil des arts de Montréal.
C’est avec des pellicules de 16mm périmées en 2002 — la même année que le génocide antimusulman commandé par l’État au Gujarat — que le réalisateur retrace un fil à partir de son année de naissance en 1989, avec des actes de protestations, de la poésie, des soulèvements, des chansons et des ruines. Letter from your Far-Off Country est une oeuvre engagée, montrant les couleurs du mouvement spontané de Shaheen Bagh à Delhi, dirigé par des femmes musulmanes, exprimant la poésie d’Agha Shahid Ali, la chanson d’Iqbal Bano, le théâtre de Safdar Hashmi et les images de B.R. Ambedkar, l’intellectuel radical anti-caste.
C’est avec des pellicules de 16mm périmées en 2002 — la même année que le génocide antimusulman commandé par l’État au Gujarat — que le réalisateur retrace un fil à partir de son année de naissance en 1989, avec des actes de protestations, de la poésie, des soulèvements, des chansons et des ruines. Letter from your Far-Off Country est une oeuvre engagée, montrant les couleurs du mouvement spontané de Shaheen Bagh à Delhi, dirigé par des femmes musulmanes, exprimant la poésie d’Agha Shahid Ali, la chanson d’Iqbal Bano, le théâtre de Safdar Hashmi et les images de B.R. Ambedkar, l’intellectuel radical anti-caste.
Survol de quelques festivals :
Festival international de film de Rotterdam, Pays-Bas (2021)
Festival de film, Prix du meilleur film expérimental, États-Unis (2021)
Festival international du film de Hong Kong, Hong Kong (2021)
Sheffield Doc/Fest, Angleterre (2021)
Festival international du film d’Asie du sud, Canada (2021)
Festival international de film de Rotterdam, Pays-Bas (2021)
Festival de film, Prix du meilleur film expérimental, États-Unis (2021)
Festival international du film de Hong Kong, Hong Kong (2021)
Sheffield Doc/Fest, Angleterre (2021)
Festival international du film d’Asie du sud, Canada (2021)
| Réalisation | Suneil Sanzgiri |
| Composition | Amirtha Kidambi, Booker Stardrum |
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Suneil Sanzgiri
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Suneil Sanzgiri is an artist, researcher, and filmmaker. His work spans experimental video and film, animations, essays, and installations, and contends with questions of identity, heritage, culture and diaspora in relation to structural violence. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a Masters of Science in Art, Culture and Technology in 2017.
His film At Home But Not At Home made its World Premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, in January 2020, with a nomination for the Found Footage Award. His follow-up film Letter From Your Far-Off Country made its world premiere at the New York Film Festival in the fall of 2020, and was entered into the Ammodo Tiger Shorts Competition at IFFR in 2021. Sanzgiri’s work has been screened extensively at festivals and galleries nationally and internationally, including Sheffield Doc/Fest, IndieLisboa, Punto de Vista, Viennale, LA Film Forum, e‑Flux, 25 FPS festival, and has won awards at BlackStar Film Fest, Open City Documentary Festival, Images Festival, as well as Special Jury mentions at the European Media Arts Festival and Iowa City Docs. Sanzgiri was a 2016 resident of the SOMA program in Mexico City, a Flaherty NYC co-programmer in 2020 — 2021, a resident of the Pioneer Works Studio Residency in Spring 2021, an inaugural fellow of Sentient Art Film’s Line of Sight fellowship, and MacDowell Fellow in winter 2021. His work has been supported by grants and fellowships from Creative Capital, the Jerome Foundation, NYSCA, Wave Farm’s Media Arts Assistance Fund, and the Foundation for Contemporary Art. His work has been written about in publications such as Film Quarterly, Art in America, and he was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in Filmmaker Magazine’s Fall 2021 Issue.
Sanzgiri is currently working on his first feature-length work, focusing on the bonds of solidarity that developed out of resistance to the Portuguese empire between India and Africa.
Notes biographiques fournies par l’équipe du film
Suneil Sanzgiri is an artist, researcher, and filmmaker. His work spans experimental video and film, animations, essays, and installations, and contends with questions of identity, heritage, culture and diaspora in relation to structural violence. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a Masters of Science in Art, Culture and Technology in 2017.
His film At Home But Not At Home made its World Premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, in January 2020, with a nomination for the Found Footage Award. His follow-up film Letter From Your Far-Off Country made its world premiere at the New York Film Festival in the fall of 2020, and was entered into the Ammodo Tiger Shorts Competition at IFFR in 2021. Sanzgiri’s work has been screened extensively at festivals and galleries nationally and internationally, including Sheffield Doc/Fest, IndieLisboa, Punto de Vista, Viennale, LA Film Forum, e‑Flux, 25 FPS festival, and has won awards at BlackStar Film Fest, Open City Documentary Festival, Images Festival, as well as Special Jury mentions at the European Media Arts Festival and Iowa City Docs. Sanzgiri was a 2016 resident of the SOMA program in Mexico City, a Flaherty NYC co-programmer in 2020 — 2021, a resident of the Pioneer Works Studio Residency in Spring 2021, an inaugural fellow of Sentient Art Film’s Line of Sight fellowship, and MacDowell Fellow in winter 2021. His work has been supported by grants and fellowships from Creative Capital, the Jerome Foundation, NYSCA, Wave Farm’s Media Arts Assistance Fund, and the Foundation for Contemporary Art. His work has been written about in publications such as Film Quarterly, Art in America, and he was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in Filmmaker Magazine’s Fall 2021 Issue.
Sanzgiri is currently working on his first feature-length work, focusing on the bonds of solidarity that developed out of resistance to the Portuguese empire between India and Africa.
Notes biographiques fournies par l’équipe du film
At Home But Not At Home (2019)
Letter From Your Far-Off Country (2020)
Letter From Your Far-Off Country (2020)
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