Screen · Dance film · 2022
Biroho
Remembering all y/our mothers and grandmothers in silence and acceptance.
From the film poster
The question
How does longing between a grieving granddaughter and her grandmother’s ghost take shape in Kathak vocabulary?
Context
A grieving granddaughter dances her way to remember and reunite with the ghost of her grandmother, only to realise it is somewhere between a dream and reality.
Biroho means duration and it also means longing. This dance film is a part of a three-chapter series tracing the sense of longing between the dancer and the ghost of her grandmother through an in-situ experience of death that pivots and shifts conversation around inner grief. Through the living copy of her handwritten letter, family archival photographs of my grandmother, and the vocabulary informed by Kathak, Biroho explores a layered journey of the emotional flux experienced in the process of longing.
This project is contextualised in a time-period of the pandemic, where radical shifts, transitions and moments of personal and collective loss and grief haunt us.
Credits
- Direction
- Sumedha Bhattacharyya, Pratik Iyer
- Producer
- Sumedha Bhattacharyya
- Cinematography
- Ruchika Krishnan
- Sound design
- Padmanabhan J
- Mentors
- R. Narayan Kumar (direction and cinematography), Anita Ratnam (movement), Arjun Gourisaria (editing)
- Editing and post-production
- AuroApaar
- Production management
- Ved Murarka, Archita Wadhwani
- Developed at
- AuroApaar Manifest Dancefilm Incubator 2022, with support from Rhutali, Narthaki and Sony