students' program VI

Three women unearth and reflect on their mem­o­ries of wit­ness­ing and sup­port­ing the Burn­sall Strike, a 1992 work­ers’ resis­tance move­ment that Pun­jabi women led in Smeth­wick, Birm­ing­ham. From within their mem­o­ries, anoth­er voice emerges - reflect­ing and bring­ing the women’s expe­ri­ence from the street to the domes­tic and per­son­al. Togeth­er, the voices attempt to recon­struct the for­got­ten whole­ness of the lives of South Asian women against the polit­i­cal and social back­drop of the UK.

Sara Saini is a Delhi-born and London-based doc­u­men­tary film­mak­er and researcher. She stud­ied Cre­ative Arts with a focus on Film at Srishti Insti­tute of Art, Design and Tech­nol­o­gy in Ban­ga­lore and just com­plet­ed her MA in Direct­ing Doc­u­men­tary at the Nation­al Film and Tele­vi­sion School in Bea­cons­field, UK. Her work seeks to reflect upon lived expe­ri­ence at the inter­sec­tion of gender, urban space, caste and race through col­lec­tion and adap­ta­tion of oral his­to­ry, per­son­al nar­ra­tives, memory and archival material.

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