Filmmaker Statement

The film emerged from my ethnographic fieldwork in Gujarat, India. Ana initially hesitated to tell her story, so I had to show up every day at her house and help her with household chores until I gained her trust. This continued for a couple of weeks. After spending significant time with Ana, she slowly started sharing her memories. In contrast to standard approaches in documentary filmmaking, I reconstructed Ana’s memories of trauma using lyrical assemblage. My goal in reconstructing these memories was to present the evidence of her resistance that has no obvious documentation.