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SUMMARY:Decolonial Practices in Film Workshop
DESCRIPTION:A Cross-Generational Dialogue with Suneil Sanzgiri and Youth FX’s Bhawin Suchak\n\n\n\nJoin us for a workshop reflecting on the practical work of filmmaking and considering its impact on the histories and communities it engages. Participants are invited into the world of artist Suneil Sanzgiri’s new film “An Impossible Address\,” in parallel to the work of Albany media arts organization Youth FX’s co-founder and co-director Bhawin Suchak. \n\n\n\nThis event is a iEAR Presents! and EMPAC Collaboration \n\n\n\n7pm: Memory\, Diaspora\, & Decoloniality: Films by Suneil Sanzgiri\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Sanctuary for Independent Media presents this Be the Media! workshop as part of our 20th Anniversary Season\, celebrating two decades of commitment to youth media! The workshop opens with a session on film practice\, after which Suneil Sanzgiri and Bhawin Suchak of Youth FX reflect on the practical work of filmmaking and consider its impact on the histories and communities it engages. Sanzgiri’s recent work serves as a departure point with focus on challenges facing emerging filmmakers. The workshop is followed by a dinner for participants\, and a concluding screening of works from Sanzgiri’s series Golden Jubilee. \n\n\n\nEMPAC series: An Impossible Address\, Suneil Sanzgiri\n\n\n\nSuneil 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 theGlobal South. Sanzgiri’s films offer sonic and visual journeys through family history\, localmythology\, and colonial legacies of extraction in Goa\, India—where his family originates—deftlyutilizing and vividly blending together 3D renderings\, drone videography\, photogrammetry andlidar scanning\, 16 mm film and animation\, archival footage\, and desktop documentary practices. \n\n\n\nBhawin Suchak is an educator\, filmmaker\, and the co-founder and co-executive director of Youth FX\, a nationally renowned media arts organization focused on empowering young people by teaching creative and technical skills in film and digital media.  He is also co-director of NeXt Doc\, a year-round fellowship program of Youth FX that exists to amplify the voices of emerging documentary filmmakers of color.  Bhawin is the director\, cinematographer and editor of Outta The Muck (2022)\, a feature length documentary supported by Sundance Institute\, ITVS\, Just Films\, Black Public Media and Southern Documentary Fund which aired on PBS’ Independent Lens series in 2023.  He also previously directed The Throwaways (2014) and Free To Learn (2004).  Bhawin is a 2019 Just Films Rockwood Fellow\, 2019 Sundance Documentary Film Program Fellow\, and a member of A-Doc: Asian American Documentary Network and the Documentary Accountability Working Group. 
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/decolonial-practices-in-film-workshop/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:Memory\, Diaspora\, & Decoloniality: Films by Suneil Sanzgiri
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nThis event is a iEAR Presents! and EMPAC Collaboration \n\n\n\n4:30pm: Decolonial Practices in Film Workshop: A Cross-Generational Dialogue with Suneil Sanzgiri and Youth FX\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat 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. \n\n\n\nEMPAC series: An Impossible Address\, Suneil Sanzgiri\n\n\n\nSuneil 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 theGlobal South. Sanzgiri’s films offer sonic and visual journeys through family history\, localmythology\, and colonial legacies of extraction in Goa\, India—where his family originates—deftlyutilizing and vividly blending together 3D renderings\, drone videography\, photogrammetry andlidar scanning\, 16 mm film and animation\, archival footage\, and desktop documentary practices.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/film-golden-jubilee/
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