If I Were Any Further Away I’d Be Closer to Home

A silent poem reflecting on the place of my mother’s birth and her first traces on earth. A generational portrait of South Asian “makers” becomes a perceptual voyage into memory, experience, and touch.

Film Maker
Samarasinghe, Rajee
Year
2016
Country
USA and Sri Lanka
Length
14
Language
No dialogue
Format
Digital File
Category
(De)colonization, Anthropology, Childhood, Class-struggle, Culture, Ethnography, Families, Labour, Memory, Portraits
Genre
documentary, experimental, short