The Flow of Resilience (2024) intricately blends text, images, and video to craft its narrative. Unveiling poignant tales of accused witches in remote villages in the Northeast of India, the film unfolds as a filmmaker embarks on a journey triggered by a found diary.
The film weaves together the filmmaker’s introspections with survivors’ collective memories. Amid deciphering the diary, written down with every detail by Monjula, an accused witch’s daughter, the filmmaker reflects on personal encounters. With three registers of voice overs, the film meditates on memory, the act of remembering, and the archival of trauma. The Flow of Resilience (2024) attempts to express the resilience and strength emerging against patriarchal systems that continue to perpetuate practices such as witch hunting.
Pranami Koch
Pranami Koch is a queer, indigenous multimedia artist, designer, and filmmaker from Assam in Northeast India. She draws inspiration from her lived, borrowed, and inherited experiences, with a keen interest in archiving and exploring the politics of representation and depiction.
When we think of witch hunts, we usually think of the Salem witch trials or even the witch hunts from 14th to the 18th century Europe. Truth be told, it happened all over the world: the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, China, and a lot of other regions—even somewhere as close and local as Eastern Java,…
