Recorded in the Occupied West Bank, this film is a glimpse of Palestine’s Jenin Refugee Camp in proximity of two deadly attacks by the Israeli military in 2023. Jenin has long been an epicenter of Palestinian armed resistance determined to overthrow Israel’s illegal military occupation. For decades Israeli forces have relentlessly invaded the camp, indiscriminately killing and wounding innocent refugees in their attempt to eliminate the growing militancy.

A street battle in Srinagar between pro-independence Kashmiri youth and Indian security forces who occupy the region.

"This is a memory—clear in my mind, etched in my heart. I don’t need a calendar to remember days and dates. This memory, that carries me back to June of 1984—it’s as much a part of me as the blood flowing through my body. Operation Blue Star sparked a revolution, but the Sikhs never gained independence. Hundreds of thousands of us were systematically killed by the Indian Government. An entire generation extinguished by this armed conflict. And those who survived, they will never be the same. I fled to Canada. It was thirty years when I returned to the Golden Temple. A lot had happened since then. A lot had changed. The friends I had left, young and small, they all grew up. I couldn’t even recognize them. There are things I can’t explain. There are things that language is unable to communicate. All those people who were inside the Golden Temple in June of 1984—all of us who carry this memory so clear in our minds and so close to our hearts—our lives are finished. Why? What has finished? Nothing. We’re still surviving. I don’t know. I can’t explain it. And it’s only when I return that I realize: Nothing’s the same. Nothing can ever be the same." 







 - G. Singh

An observation of life and environmental calamity in California’s dust-bowl of Owens Lake. In 1908, the Los Angeles DWP (Department of Water & Power) diverted Owens River in order to create an massive aqueduct spanning hundreds of miles of desert to the California coast. No longer fed by its source, Owens Lake soon dried up into an alkali salt flat. Since then the westerly winds sweeping over the Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains have created a perpetual toxic dust-bowl full of carcinogenic particulate matter. Over the past century the thriving towns that once dotted the shores of Owens Lake were abandoned. Today only the town of Keeler remains, where a handful of residents live amidst the most polluted air in the United States, with no access to potable drinking water. The nearest town, Lone Pine, is roughly a 40 mile round trip. This environmental disaster prompts us to reflect upon California’s water and air management and the dire consequences of upsetting nature’s balance.

A Mexican baker in San Francisco's Mission District reflects on the gentrification of his neighborhood, and the loss of a community he once knew. Recorded in Autumn 2013 on a 16mm Bolex film camera.

Tracing the life of Liberian reggae artist, Rabbie Nassrallah, who survived the country's vicious years of civil wars and rose to musical stardom. Filmed in Monrovia, Liberia.

A lyrical portrait of seasonal life in Aroostook County, Maine’s northern borderlands with Canada.

On May 29th, 2009, Shakeel Ahmad Ahanger, a Kashmiri man living in the town of Shopian, returned home from work to find his wife and sister missing. After notifying the police and searching through the night, he discovered their battered bodies the next morning in a nearby river. Although the initial post-mortem and investigations stipulated that the two women had been gang-raped and murdered, the Indian Government’s Central Bureau of Investigation later ruled their deaths as "accidental drowning". The incident sparked massive strikes and protests against the Indian military occupation, and continues to be a rallying cry for Kashmiri human rights. Filmed in June 2010, "In Shopian" presents a firsthand account of Shakeel’s story amidst the current state of social unrest in the capital of Srinagar and outlying rural areas. It features rare interviews with separatist leaders Syed Ali Geelani, Yasin Malik, and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, as well as street battles between pro-independence Kashmiris and Indian security forces. Kashmir has been occupied by the India military since 1947, and is considered to be the world's most militarized zone. The Kashmiri people have been waging an independence movement for over a half-century. Other portions of Kashmir are occupied by Pakistan and China.

Right of return for Palestinian refugees expelled from Lifta, a once thriving Arab village on the outskirts of Jerusalem that today lies in ruins under Israeli occupation. Lifta's residents were massacred and forcibly displaced by Israeli forces during the 1948 war.