If I Were Any Further Away I’d Be Closer to Home

A silent poem reflecting on the place of my mother’s birth and her first traces on earth. A generational portrait of South Asian “makers” becomes a perceptual voyage into memory, experience, and touch.

Film Maker
Samarasinghe, Rajee
Year
2016
Country
USA and Sri Lanka
Length
14
Language
No dialogue
Category
(De)colonization, Anthropology, Childhood, Class-struggle, Culture, Ethnography, Families, Labour, Memory, Portraits
Genre
documentary, experimental, short