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Memory, Diaspora, & Decoloniality: Films by Suneil Sanzgiri

October 29, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT

Join us for a film screening of Golden Jubilee, a film in a series of works about memory, diaspora, and decoloniality, with filmmaker Suneil Sanzgiri.

This event is a iEAR Presents! and EMPAC Collaboration

4:30pm: Decolonial Practices in Film Workshop: A Cross-Generational Dialogue with Suneil Sanzgiri and Youth FX

a still from suneil sanzgiri's film. a dewy, dark horizon with dark leaves and a dim orange light

What is liberation when so much has already been taken? Who has come for more? “Golden Jubilee”, the third film in a series of works about memory, diaspora and decoloniality, takes as its starting point scenes of the filmmaker’s father navigating a virtual rendering of their ancestral home in Goa, India, created using the same technologies of surveillance that mining companies use to map locations for iron ore in the region. A tool for extraction and exploitation becomes a method for preservation.

EMPAC series: An Impossible Address, Suneil Sanzgiri

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—deftly
utilizing and vividly blending together 3D renderings, drone videography, photogrammetry and
lidar scanning, 16 mm film and animation, archival footage, and desktop documentary practices.