About the Films
A Gregarious Species (2021)
What do bugs and borders have to do with each other? Bringing together mobile phone videos of transboundary gregarious locust swarms, political rallies, and scientific webinars, this found-footage, experimental video raises questions about the selective porosity of borders amidst environmental crisis, farmer insecurity, and nationalism in South Asia.
Kitne Passports (How Many Passports) (visual sample, film-in-production)
What does waiting for a welcome feel like? Follow four cross-caste, Pakistani Hindu migrant families in western India, as they shift between minority and majority status, navigating uncertain futures.
Featuring
Dr. Natasha Raheja
Natasha Raheja is a documentary filmmaker and legal and visual anthropologist, currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University. Her work focuses on belonging, migration and movement – of humans, non-human animals and objects – across the India-Pakistan border.