Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?)
Screenings
Glimpses and hallucinations of solidarity and possibility through generations. A woman’s dreams become haunted by a mythological titan from Portuguese mythology that sought to prevent Vasco de Gama from ever reaching India. Questions of what could have been emerge across ends to colonial occupations in India and Africa.
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Directors Spotlight
Suneil Sanzgiri
Director
Suneil Sanzgiri is an artist, researcher, and filmmaker. Spanning experimental video and film, animations, essays, and installations, his work contends with questions of identity, heritage, culture, and diaspora in relation to structural violence and anticolonial struggles across the Global South. Sanzgiri’s films offer sonic and visual journeys through family history, local mythology, and colonial legacies of extraction in Goa, India—where his family originates. His first institutional solo exhibition Here the Earth Grows Gold opened at the Brooklyn Museum in October 2023. His films have circulate widely at film festivals and art institutions across the world including International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Camden International Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Doclisboa, Viennale, BlackStar Film Festival, Open City Docs, REDCAT, Menil Collection, Block Museum, MASS MoCA, moCa Cleveland, Le Cinéma Club, Criterion Collection, and many more.
- Runtime 35 minutes
- Country United States, India
- Language Konkani, English
- Director Suneil Sanzgiri
- Cast Tilya Fernandes
- Cinematographer Krish Makhija, Bernardo Infante
- Composer Amirtha Kidambi and Booker Stardrum
- Editor Suneil Sanzgiri
- Screenwriter Sham-e-Ali Nayeem
- Animator Suneil Sanzgiri and Steve Cossman
- Producer Suneil Sanzgiri
- Sound Design Suneil Sanzgiri
- Premiere Philadelphia
