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If From Every Tongue it Drips
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From Every Tongue it Drips is a film that uses the framework of quantum physics to explore
the ways that personal relationships and political movements at once transcend
and challenge time, space, identity and location.
The film follows the lives of a couple living in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, one of whom writes Rekhti, a form of 19th century, Urdu, queer poetry; the other, her lover, the camera operator. As their personal lives unfold on camera, the lines between rehearsal and reality, location and distance, self and other dissipate and reinforce one another.
The film follows the lives of a couple living in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, one of whom writes Rekhti, a form of 19th century, Urdu, queer poetry; the other, her lover, the camera operator. As their personal lives unfold on camera, the lines between rehearsal and reality, location and distance, self and other dissipate and reinforce one another.
Simultaneously, through
poet and camera operator’s daily lives, interconnections between British
colonialism, Indian nationalism and the impact of both on contemporary poetry,
dance and music in South Asia is revealed.
68 min, single-channel
Canada, Sri Lanka, Scotland
2021
68 min, single-channel
Canada, Sri Lanka, Scotland
2021
CREDITS
Director/Producer: Sharlene
Bamboat.
Performer: Ponni Arasu.
Camera Operator: Sarala Emmanuel.
Sound: Richy Carey.
Edit: Muhammed Nour Elkhairy.
Performer: Ponni Arasu.
Camera Operator: Sarala Emmanuel.
Sound: Richy Carey.
Edit: Muhammed Nour Elkhairy.
