WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, April 27 at 6 pm, the Clark Art Institute screens "Saat Hindustani" in its auditorium in the Manton Research Center. 

 

Artist Suneil Sanzgiri introduces the film and addresses its historical context and the film's relation to his own practice, including his trilogy of short films currently on view at MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, as well as his forthcoming first feature-length film, Two Refusals.

 

According to a press release:

 

One of the only films made about the liberation of Goa from Portuguese colonialism, Saat Hindustani (1969; 2 hours, 24 minutes) was made nine years after the Goan independence and by a non-Goan director, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas. The film tells the story of seven friends from across the Indian subcontinent, once united as comrades in the fight to liberate Goa and now split along varying ideological and religious lines, returning to aid their ailing Goan friend who has fallen ill.

 

Co-sponsored by the Williams College Department of Asian Studies.

 

Free and open to the public; no registration is required.