Overview

Dispatches by Amshu Chukki (with text by Joshua Muyiwa) / 9 min / India.

Abstracted scenes from the film ‘Razia Sultan’ which features a doomed romance between the only female sultan of Delhi and her Abyssinian slave, play out on monitors in several sites in Delhi that are strongly associated with the African community. The film draws tangents between the 13th-century romance and African-Indian lovers in contemporary Delhi, exploring notions of belonging, memory, and the idea of landscape in relation to the African Identity.

“Asian Film Focus 2017: Time Machine”, Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore. https://www.objectifs.com.sg/aff-2017/