This Shaking Keeps Me Steady
Director: Shehrezad Maher Run time: 60 mins | Recommended Certificate: 12A Language: Urdu with English subtitles | Year: 2018 | Country: Pakistan/USA
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In Karachi, three paramedics discuss their recurring nightmares sparked by their experiences at work: disturbing stories that haunt the first responders responsible for tending to violent events. As well their recollections, televised re-enactments with victims, criminals and medical personnel showcase scenarios ranging from the banal to the horrifying. Alternating between reminiscence and fiction, reality and imagination Shehrezad Maher creates a powerful and impactful reflection on trauma and the spectacle of violence in society.
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Q&A with Director Shehrezad Maher
Director
Shehrezad Maher
Shehrezad Maher is an interdisciplinary artist who was born and grew up in Karachi, Pakistan (1988) and currently lives in New York. Her work has screened at institutions and festivals such as Visions du Réel, RIDM, the LA Film Forum, Anthology Film Archives, UnionDocs and Experiments in Cinema, and has been reviewed by publications such as Sight and Sound, Afterimage, and Point of View magazine (POV), among others. She studied visual arts at Bennington College (2011) and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale University (2014).
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London | Stratford Picturehouse
June 24, 2019 8:00 pm
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