ਫਲ ੈਂਡਰਸ ਦੀ ਜ਼ਮੀਂ ਵਿ ੱਚ / Sachin / India, Belgium / 16’ / 2024

While visiting Ypres, Sachin learns that 1.4 million Indians were conscripted by the British to fight on the Flanders Fields during the First World War. Using audio recordings, letters, songs and archives, he brings his anonymous ancestors back to life, like ghosts inlaid in an immovable winter landscape.

Sachin
Sachin is a Rajasthan-based filmmaker who employs lens-based art to comprehend the world around him and express his ideas with an experimental approach. Coming from an agrarian family, Sachin is deeply invested in the visual exploration of agricultural practices in rural communities and their interconnectedness with socio-ecological factors. He is interested in oral histories, folklore and community based indigenous knowledge systems. His films often explore the changes in rural landscapes, beliefs and knowledge systems.
Sachin is co-founder of Docustan Cinema Association, which is dedicated to nurturing the practice of documentary filmmaking in South Asia.