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Working along side CINENOVA (The Women’s Film and Video Distributor), Glasgow Women’s Library and Transmission Gallery presents I for India, by Sandhya Puri.
In 1965 Yash Pal Suri left India for the U.K. The first thing he does on his arrival in England is to buy 2 Super 8 cameras, 2 projectors and 2 reel-to-reel recorders. One set of equipment he sends to his family in India, the other he keeps for himself. For forty years he uses it to share his new life abroad with those back home – images of snow, miniskirted ladies dancing bare-legged, the first trip to an English supermarket – his taped thoughts and observations providing a unique chronicle of the eccentricities of his new English hosts. Back in India, his relatives in turn respond with their own ‘cine-letters’ telling tales of weddings, festivals and village life.
As time passes and the planned return to India becomes an increasingly remote possibility, the joy and curiosity of the early exchanges give way to the darker reality of alienation, racism and a family falling apart.
A bitter-sweet time capsule of alienation, discovery, racism and belonging, I for India is a chronicle of immigration in sixties Britain and beyond, seen through the eyes of one Asian family and their movie camera.
The film screening will be followed by a discussion on migration and settlement in Scotland since the 1940’s. We will be keen to hear personal testimonies of women settling in a new country and highlight & celebrate the contribution they have made.
Screening at Transmission Gallery, 45 King Street, Glasgow
Thursday, 27th November at 7pm
To book a place, please contact the Library.
