AT HOME BUT NOT AT HOME
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Filmmaker Suneil Sanzgiri’s father was 18 when India ousted the last remaining Portuguese colonisers from Goa in 1961. Combining 16mm with drone footage, desktop screenshots, and Skype interviews with the filmmaker’s father, At Home But Not at Home utilises various modes of seeing at a distance to question identity, the construction of memory, and anti-colonial solidarity across continents.
At Home But Not At Home screens as part of the shorts program Colonial (Dis)entanglements, on Sunday, June 27 at 1:45 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 (THFF21), 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 in the US 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.
