Duration: 60:03
Year of production: 2018
Countries of production: Pakistan, United States
Music: Todd Reynolds
Sound Mix: Andor Sperling
Originating from a prompt to two ambulance drivers in Karachi to retell recurring dreams that occur in their sleep,
'This Shaking Keeps Me Steady' explores the permeable boundaries between memory and fiction, and between lived trauma, its recollection, and its re-enactment. First responders reflect on the aftermath of violent events, while television
re-enactment actors audition for, and perform the gendered roles of victim, perpetrator, and witness in scenarios ranging from the banal to tragic. Unfolding through rituals, preparations, dreams, and performance, we never see the tragic events themselves, but catch traces of the extent to which they have been internalized by a society.
Screenings:
Mantiq of the Mantis, Lahore, Pakistan, January 2020
London Indian Film Festival, London, England, June 2019
Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH, April 2019
UnionDocs, Brooklyn, NY, February 2019
Visions du Réel, Nyon, Switzerland, April 2018
RIDM (Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal), Montréal, Canada, November 2018
Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, November 2018
Signes de Nuit, Paris, France, October 2018
Press:
Dawn (Images)
BBC Radio London, Interview with Attika Choudhary (June 23, 2019)
British Medical Journal
Scroll.in
Sight & Sound
High on Films
Movie Mahal
Point of View magazine (POV)
The GATE
Asian Movie Pulse (Nov, 2018 and Jan, 2019)
Year of production: 2018
Countries of production: Pakistan, United States
Music: Todd Reynolds
Sound Mix: Andor Sperling
Originating from a prompt to two ambulance drivers in Karachi to retell recurring dreams that occur in their sleep,
'This Shaking Keeps Me Steady' explores the permeable boundaries between memory and fiction, and between lived trauma, its recollection, and its re-enactment. First responders reflect on the aftermath of violent events, while television
re-enactment actors audition for, and perform the gendered roles of victim, perpetrator, and witness in scenarios ranging from the banal to tragic. Unfolding through rituals, preparations, dreams, and performance, we never see the tragic events themselves, but catch traces of the extent to which they have been internalized by a society.
Screenings:
Mantiq of the Mantis, Lahore, Pakistan, January 2020
London Indian Film Festival, London, England, June 2019
Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH, April 2019
UnionDocs, Brooklyn, NY, February 2019
Visions du Réel, Nyon, Switzerland, April 2018
RIDM (Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal), Montréal, Canada, November 2018
Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, November 2018
Signes de Nuit, Paris, France, October 2018
Press:
Dawn (Images)
BBC Radio London, Interview with Attika Choudhary (June 23, 2019)
British Medical Journal
Scroll.in
Sight & Sound
High on Films
Movie Mahal
Point of View magazine (POV)
The GATE
Asian Movie Pulse (Nov, 2018 and Jan, 2019)
