I am grass

This non-narrative film is a documentary in and of poems. The poems criss-cross continents, bending durable poetic truths into sounds and shapes that express new times and new places. Resistance and survival are enacted via community-embodied artistic production.

This result is a personal, impressionistic yet ground-level perspective from the unique point of view of a son of India’s so-called “criminal tribes”. He watches his elders perform plays, watches the police smash his neighborhood and arrest his friends. He travels from India to the West, documenting mass uprisings following the murder of George Floyd.
Poems by Punjabi/Hindi Poet, Pash, and Boston poet, Ashley Rose, together sing the song: that the ancestors do not forget, and the will of the people to freedom cannot be killed. The character of the film is the collectivity—their resilience is in their dispersal—in their experience surviving.

Film Advisory Content: Police Violence

Credits
Writer: Abhi Indrekar, Michaela Henry
Producer: Michaela Henry
Director of Photography: Abhi Indrekar, Keyur Chhara, Dakxin Chhara
Editor: Abhi Indrekar
Composer: Anish Garange
Sound Designer: BT Hathaway
Music: Anish Garange