MIGRANT IMAGES I.

The House My Grandfather Built

The House my Grandfather Built is a filmic interrogation of the silences and gaps at the heart of the filmmaker’s family history. She returns to the village in India which her grandfather left when he was a teenager, in the years after partition. He leaves post-partition India behind for an education in the west. A series of colonial-style postcards, which capture scenes of everyday life in her grandfather’s hometown, framed as if from the perspective of an unattached colonial observer, become the prompts for an oblique opening up of silenced and repressed histories - both on the individual and national levels.