Duration: 60:03
Year of production: 2018
Countries of production: Pakistan, United States
Music: Todd Reynolds
Sound Mix: Andor Sperling
A prompt to two ambulance drivers in Karachi to reconstruct recurring dreams catalyzes an
exploration of the permeable boundaries between memory and fiction, and between trauma and its
recollection. As first responders consider the aftermath of violent events, 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 events themselves, but catch traces of the extent to which they have been internalized
by a society.
Streaming platform:
Kinoscope
Screenings:
Chalta Phirta Documentary Festival, Pakistan, November 2020
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
A prompt to two ambulance drivers in Karachi to reconstruct recurring dreams catalyzes an
exploration of the permeable boundaries between memory and fiction, and between trauma and its
recollection. As first responders consider the aftermath of violent events, 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 events themselves, but catch traces of the extent to which they have been internalized
by a society.
Streaming platform:
Kinoscope
Screenings:
Chalta Phirta Documentary Festival, Pakistan, November 2020
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)