1. Home
  2. BAROBAR JAGTANA PRODUCTIONS
  3. TWO REFUSALS (WOULD WE RECOGNIZE OURSELVES UNBROKEN?)

TWO REFUSALS (WOULD WE RECOGNIZE OURSELVES UNBROKEN?)

By Suneil SANZGIRI

BAROBAR JAGTANA PRODUCTIONS - as SALES All rights / PROMO

Documentary - Completed 2023

Glimpses and hallucinations of solidarity and possibility through generations. A woman’s dreams become haunted by a mythological titan from Portuguese mythology that sought to prevent Vasco de Gama from ever reaching India. Questions of what could have been emerge across ends to colonial occupations

Festivals
& Awards

BFI London FF 2024
Official Competition - Short Film
Login to view all information
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Experimental, Art - Culture
    • Countries
    • USA, INDIA, PORTUGAL
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH-UNITED STATES
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 35 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Suneil SANZGIRI
    • Writer(s)
    • Sham-E-Ali NAYEEM
    • Producer(s)
    • Suneil SANZGIRI
    • Synopsis
    • Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?) is an ongoing project focusing on interwoven narratives around the mutual struggle against Portuguese colonialism between India and Africa, and the bonds of solidarity that developed between the two continents. Told through a mix of interviews and fictional narratives, Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?) utilizes a blend of CGI animation, super 16mm film, hand-processed and destroyed archival film to uncover lost layers of world-building, kinship, and the material and immaterial network of relations that developed between historical figures in Goa, Mozambique, Angola, and Guinea-Bissau.

      A woman’s dreams become haunted by a mythological titan from Portuguese mythology called the Adamastor—a giant storm cloud formed on the Cape of Good Hope who sought to destroy Vasco de Gama’s ship and prevent him from ever reaching India. Repurposed from Portugal’s oldest work of epic poetry, Os Lusíadas, the Adamastor becomes a figure of refusal but also of failure, as the woman who is haunted by the monstrous storm cloud’s presence in her nightmares recounts through monologues to the monster the ethno-nationalist violence taking hold in the aftermath of decolonization.
Top
Contact us
© Cinando(2024).com
All rights reserved. 3.0.0.0 - SOIF