An Intangible Claim, 2022, Payal Arya
The film is created using found footage, as I wish to talk of a land that I have only known through distance. The film questions the right to claim and own land. It metaphorically ties together the two phenomena of partition and reclamation. Traversing through her memories, my Naani (grandmother) attempts to hold onto the ancestral home she was forced to leave behind. Her yearning is embodied by the sea that surges in claiming the land that was once its own. The avarice to possess that cost my Naani her home has continued to propel us over the brink of causing irreversible damage to the world around us.