About the Event
Till Then The Roads
Directed by Uzma Falak
(India, 2015, 28 min.)
Saturday, January 20, 7:00 PM
Filmmaker Ifshah Zehra will be present to introduce the films and to
lead discussion after the screening.
The film attempts to challenge the dominant narratives of the victimhood of Kashmir women by bringing to the fore their stories of resistance and spaces contextualizing their experiences. Using intergenerational narratives, personal histories, archival photos, poetry, songs, and images, the film sets out to challenge the dominant images of representation and exoticized iconography reinforced by Bollywood and attempts to explore myriad forms of resistance employed by the Kashmir women in their day-to-day lives; witnessing, grieving, praying, celebrating, walking, dreaming—the film endows each act with deep political meanings. Interweaving memory into physical spaces renders spaces into characters. The film narrative is strung together with the filmmaker’s poems through which she explores her memory and embeds herself in the film, punctuating the inter-generational women’s narratives. The act of remembering against institutionalized amnesia is a recurring motif in the movie, resisting hegemonic narratives through the exploration of ‘counter-memory.’
Discounted parking available at Founder’s Court, $6 flat rate, credit card required.
Free and open to the public.
