Golden Jubilee,

19’, 16mm & 4k video, DCP, 2021

What is liberation when so much has already been taken? Who has come for more? "Golden Jubilee", the third film in a series of works about memory, diaspora and decoloniality, takes as its starting point scenes of the filmmaker’s father navigating a virtual rendering of their ancestral home in Goa, India, created using the same technologies of surveillance that mining companies use to map locations for iron ore in the region. A tool for extraction and exploitation becomes a method for preservation. The father, sparked by a memory of an encounter as a child, inhabits the voice of a spirit known locally as Devchar, whose task is to protect the workers, farmers, and the once communal lands of Goa. Protection from what the filmmaker asks? Sanzgiri’s signature blend of 16mm sequences, 3D renders, direct animation, and desktop aesthetics are vividly employed in this lush, and ghostly look at questions of heritage, culture, and the remnants of history.

Official selections & Additional screenings (2021 - 2022)

International Film Festival Rotterdam
Berwick Film & Media Festival, New Cinema Awards Competition 
Media City Film Festival
True/False Film Festival
Kurtzfilm Hamburg, International Competition
San Diego Asian Film Festival
Chicago International Film Festival, Best Documentary Short Competition
Prismatic Ground
DocLisboa
“But Where Are You Really From? Tour” T A P E Collective
Dharamshala International Film Festival
International Film Festival CineMigrante
Onion City Experimental Film & Video Festival
Pioneer Works
Third Horizon Film Festival
Festival internazionale Segni della notte
NOMADICA
Short Waves Festival
North by North Festival
Cinemigrante en Obraje
Shadow Kitchen
Curitiba International Experimental Cinema Festival