September 2023
Pegah Pasalar, Mounira Al Solh, Basma al-Sharif, Suneil Sanzgiri
EVERYWHERE WAS THE SAMEFeaturing Pegah Pasalar, Mounira Al Solh, Basma al-Sharif, Suneil Sanzgiri, and Mirene Arsanios In-person Sep 12, 2023 screening:at e-flux Screening Room at 7 pm ETScreening will be followed by a conversation with filmmakers Pegah Pasalar and Suneil Sanzgiri moderated by writer Mirene Arsanios.Address: 172 Classon Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205Get Tickets here Online Screening:…
Suneil Sanzgiri
, 2019
, 11 min
In 1961, fourteen years after India gained independence from Britain, the Indian Armed Forces defeated the last remaining Portuguese colonizers in the newly formed state of Goa. The artist’s father was eighteen at the time, and had just moved away from his small village of Curchorem to Bombay for school when news reached him about…
Pegah Pasalar, Suneil Sanzgiri
Pegah Pasalar (b. 1992) is an Iranian interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and film editor currently based in Brooklyn. Her autoethnographic practice encompasses video, installation, and film, exploring themes including identity convulsion, cultural memory, fragmentation, temporality, and displacement. Pegah is particularly interested in oral histories and modes of storytelling people use to refabulate the past. She is the…