At the Crossroads
(KAHAN KA RAASTA)
Savyasachi Anju Prabir
India 2017 | 48 min | engl. subtitled
India 2017 | 48 min | engl. subtitled
Tue, 28-May-19 01:00 PM
Sun, 02-Jun-19 03:30 PM

Wake up! is the recurrent tag on walls in Athens, Istanbul and Madrid. As a sign, it traces the political struggles between 2011 and 2015. The film is an essayistic collage that maps responses to the political events that led, among other things, to rent rising to 600 Euros in urban spaces. Protest tags in capital letters on major monuments are compared and contrasted in regard to form and content. The montage of images of the urban space filled with letters and signs sprayed on buildings blends with the narrator’s voice to create a reflection on and an appeal for public land. Which kind of public sphere, what kind of images, language, and narrations do we use and inhabit to change the world around us?