Suneil Sanzgiri is an artist, researcher, and filmmaker working to understand how systems of oppression are informed and reinforced by trauma, history, and memory. His work spans experimental video, animations, essays, and installations, and contends with questions of identity, heritage, culture and diaspora in relationship to structural violence.
He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a Masters of Science in Art, Culture and Technology in 2017 and was a 2016 resident of the SOMA program in Mexico City.
His film At Home But Not At Home made its World Premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) in January 2020, with a nomination for the Found Footage Award. His work has been screened at festivals and galleries nationally and internationally including in New York, Chicago, Baltimore, the UK, Scotland, Brazil, Croatia, France, and the Czech Republic. Sanzgiri is also a co-programmer of the Flaherty NYC.
He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a Masters of Science in Art, Culture and Technology in 2017 and was a 2016 resident of the SOMA program in Mexico City.
His film At Home But Not At Home made its World Premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) in January 2020, with a nomination for the Found Footage Award. His work has been screened at festivals and galleries nationally and internationally including in New York, Chicago, Baltimore, the UK, Scotland, Brazil, Croatia, France, and the Czech Republic. Sanzgiri is also a co-programmer of the Flaherty NYC.
Images of work (left to right):
1. Still from At Home But Not At Home, 2019, 11’, DCP, Single Channel
2. Still from At Home But Not At Home, idem
3. Still from Letter From Your Far-off Country, 2020, 17’ 30”, 16mm transfer to 2k video 4. Still from Letter From Your Far-off Country, idem
5. Still from Letter From Your Far-off Country, idem
6. Still from Letter From Your Far-off Country, idem
1. Still from At Home But Not At Home, 2019, 11’, DCP, Single Channel
2. Still from At Home But Not At Home, idem
3. Still from Letter From Your Far-off Country, 2020, 17’ 30”, 16mm transfer to 2k video 4. Still from Letter From Your Far-off Country, idem
5. Still from Letter From Your Far-off Country, idem
6. Still from Letter From Your Far-off Country, idem
Website: https://suneilsanzgiri.com