We are delighted to invite you to the UK premiere screening of When the Tide Goes Out, a documentary film by acclaimed filmmaker Ajay Bharadwaj followed by a Q&A with the director.

Organized by the Department of Sociology and the Institute of Advanced Study, this screening will take place on October 10, 2024, from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM at the Faculty of Arts Building (FAB) Cinema Room.

Synopsis

The film focuses on cultural activists, artists and labour organizers as they ruminate over their lives and activism in the labour movement of the 1970s and the 1980s in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland. The memories of inter-community cultural solidarity activism revolve around an episode of self-organization by Punjabi Canadian farmworkers, mostly women, led by their newly formed union is the narrative focus, that unravels the structural reality of gender inequality, reproducing itself in the activism spectrum of the period. A key assertion is that the visual archive of cultural activism, rallies and picket lines eludes the gendered experience of activism and organizing. Four decades after the protests, the image forms tangible evidence, shaping the movement’s memory. What remains undocumented in the movement’s arts goes unrepresented in the movement’s collective memory. These complex relationships between art and activism thus shape the discussion that the film evokes and narrates.

Here is the short trailer: https://vimeo.com/749264781

Review: https://www.asapconnect.in/post/524/singleevents/memories-of-a-movement

Screened at: Association of Asian Studies 2024 FILM EXPO, Seattle, 9th Kolkata People's Film Festival 2023, Vancouver International South Asian Film Festival 2022.

Best wishes,

Dr. Virinder Kalra