HOME, SUSPENDED curated by Pickle Factory Dance Foundation for Jomba!2021, Durban, South Africa.

In India during the last five decades, more than 50 million people have been uprooted from their homes due to development-induced displacement. The displaced persons are mostly asset-less rural poor like landless labourers, small farmers, tribals, Dalits and Adivasis. For the sake of national interest and development, these millions bear witness to the destruction of their own lives and livelihoods with bleak hopes of rehabilitation or settlement. This short film captures the unsettling experience of displacement and homelessness transformed into a state of suspension. 

Home, Suspended is a part of SitaaurGita, an ongoing movement based video series on sociopolitical factors of India. The series attempts to illustrate the social, political & cultural fabric and investigate how deeply they are intertwined. The issues addressed, though pan-Indian in their discourse, have been showcased in an urban middle class perspective.

Choreographer & Director - Nikita Maheshwary
Performers - Pragati Agarwal & Nikita Maheshwary
DoP - One Frame Story
Editor - Amit Banerjee