Letter From Your FarOff Country (2020)

Drawing upon a rich repository of imagesfrom digital renderings of Kashmirs mountains to the textured materiality of 16mm handprocessing and direct animation techniquesLetter From Your FarOff Country maps a hidden vein of shared political commitment and diasporic creative expression linking a poem by the Kashmiri American writer Agha Shahid Ali interviews with the filmmakers father and a letter addressed to Prabhakar Sanzgiri a leader of Indias Communist party and a distant relative of the filmmaker