7inch no.31: I For India
Movie-making as letter-writing
I For India
(Dir: Sandhya Suri, UK 2005, 70 mins)
In 1965 Yash Pal Suri and his wife Sheel left behind their families in
India to start a new life in Darlington. Frustrated with
letter-writing, he kept in touch with his relatives by exchanging super
8 home-movies and tape recordings, and in the process kept a record of
the tensions and regrets that migration can create. His daughter
Sandhya Suri, a graduate from the National Film and Television School,
has woven this material along with archive news footage from the time
into a beautiful, bittersweet film about home and belonging. (There's more background in this interview.)
To accompany the film we'll have some appropriately
misty-eyed shorts, and a selection of reconfigured archive footage of
the Midlands Arts Centre recently premiered at the mac itself.
This event is supported by Vivid.
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