Golden Jubilee, 2021, 19 minutes

What is liberation when so much has already been taken? Who has come for more? ‘Golden Jubilee’, the third film in a series of works about memory, diaspora and decoloniality, takes as its starting point scenes of the filmmaker’s father navigating a virtual rendering of their ancestral home in Goa, India, created using the same technologies of surveillance that mining companies use to map locations for iron ore in the region. A tool for extraction and exploitation becomes a method for preservation.