October 29

4:30pm-6pm: A cross-generational dialogue with Suneil Sanzgiri and Bhawin Suchak of Youth FX | Register

7pm-9pm: "Memory, Diaspora, & Decoloniality: Films by Suneil Sanzgiri" | Register

The Sanctuary for Independent Media, 3361 6th Ave., Troy, NY

Participants are invited into the world of artist Suneil Sanzgiri’s film work, including his new film at EMPAC, An Impossible Address, in parallel to the work of Albany media arts organization Youth FX. Sanzgiri will also be discussing his latest commissioned project "An Impossible Address” open to the public at EMPAC, Oct. 29-Nov. 1.

The Sanctuary for Independent Media presents this Be the Media! Workshop as part of their 20th Anniversary Season, celebrating two decades of commitment to youth media! The program opens with a workshop session on film practice. Sanzgiri and Suchak/ Youth FX reflect on the practical work of filmmaking and consider its impact on the histories and communities it engages. Sanzgiri’s recent work serves as a departure point with focus on challenges facing emerging filmmakers. The workshop is followed by a dinner for participants, and a concluding screening of works from Sanzgiri’s series Golden Jubilee.

What is liberation when so much has already been taken away? Who has come for more? “Golden Jubilee”, the third film in the 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 exploitation becomes a method for preservation.