LETTER FROM YOUR FAR-OFF COUNTRY
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Synopsis
Drawing upon a rich repository of images —from digital renderings of Kashmir’s mountains to the textured materiality of 16mm hand-processing and direct animations techniques—Letter From Your Far-off Country, maps a hidden vein of shared political commitment and diasporic creative expression, linking a poem by the Kashmiri American writer Agha Shahid Ali with interviews with the filmmaker’s father and a letter addressed to Communist Party leader Prabhakar Sanzgiri, who is also the filmmaker’s distant relative.
Letter From Your Far Off Country screens as part of the shorts program Beyond the Barricades, on Tuesday, June 29 at 6:00 pm.
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About the Director
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 an MSc in Art, Culture and Technology in 2017. His film At Home But Not At Home had its World Premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), in January 2020, with a nomination for the Found Footage Award. His follow-up film Letter From Your Far-off Country had 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 at festivals and galleries nationally and internationally. Sanzgiri was a 2016 resident of the SOMA program in Mexico City and will be a resident of the Pioneer Works Studio Residency in Spring 2021.
