TRIPLE PLAY: Three films on Kashmir

Film Screening and Panel Discussion on Kashmir

Award-winning filmmaker and New School alumna Sarah Singh

Panel – Mohamed Junaid and Prof. Nitin Sawhney in conversation with Sarah Singh

 5:45pm-7pm | Theresa Lang Community Center (55 W 13th St, NY)

All three films are approximately 10 min each.

• The Sky Below (segment from her award-winning documentary)
• A Million Rivers (segment from her new surrealist fiction work)
  
• Sufiyana: Music of the 21^st Century (segment from a new film in progress)

These three completely different film works offers a rare opportunity to construct a cubistic portrait of a people, land, culture, history, and future, thereby expanding the narrative portrayal regarding one of the most disturbing and dangerous regional issues of our time. Kashmir is at the forefront of global politics, like a stick of dynamite between two nuclear nations. The region has been called a ‘frozen conflict’ in which many thousands of lives have been destroyed by a deadly cocktail of internal and external players over decades.

What are the possible outcomes or ways forward in what appears to be an increasingly hostile and desperate clash where ramifications echo across the world, and importantly, resonate immediately across Central, South, and East Asia?

The event is co-sponsored by The India China Institute, the School of Media Studies and the Engage Media Lab at The New School.

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About the Filmmaker

Sarah Singh was born in Patiala, Punjab, India and moved to the US in 1974. She is an award-winning filmArtist and has completed two feature-length films, several short film works, and is in the development of a third feature film. Sarah has worked in the film and TV industry for over a decade. Prior to that she exhibited paintings, drawings and photography. Starting from her first solo show in 1996 at the Prithvi Gallery in Juhu, Bombay, her work has been privately collected. She is on the Board of Advisors for Sindhi Voices Project and The Journal for Ethnic and Migration Studies.

You can learn more about Singh’s work on her website. You can follow Sarah on @sarahsinghNY.

The Sky Below  is a critically-acclaimed doc on the 1947 Partition of the Subcontinent and the Kashmir question.

A Million Rivers recently had its’ world premiere at the V&A Museum and will premiere in New York later this Fall. This is an opportunity to get a sneak preview of one of the main thematic aspects of this work. The film starts Om Puri, Lillete Dubey and Asif Basra as “the man from Kashmir”.

Music For the 21^st Century is a new film series devoted to exploring music traditions and practices across the Subcontinent. This segment showcases a memorial concert for the world’s last known Kashmir Sufiyana master, Ghulam Mohammed Saznawaz.