When the Tide Goes Out 18

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director Ajay Bhardwaj.

This is a Pay What You Can screening, more info HERE.

Presented in partnership with Inspirate, When the Tide Goes Out sees a generation of local cultural activists ruminate over their lives and activism in British Columbia.

The memories of intercommunity activism revolve around an episode of self-organizing by Punjabi Canadian farmworkers, mostly women. Reflection and introspection gradually unravel the structural reality of gender inequality reproducing itself in the activism spectrum. Unlike the visual archive of rallies and picket lines, the gendered experience of organizing did not lend itself to an image.

The image forms tangible evidence four decades later, shaping the movement’s memory. What remains undocumented in the movement’s arts goes unrepresented in the movement’s memory.

In English, and Punjabi with English subtitles.

Dr. Ajay Bhardwaj is a scholar and documentary filmmaker with a practice spanning three decades across two continents – Punjab in India and British Columbia in Canada. He has a long engagement with memory, popular culture, social movements, performance, and arts. His Punjab trilogy of documentaries, Where the Twain Shall Meet, Thus Departed Our Neighbours, and Let’s Meet at Baba Ratan’s Fair, has been widely acknowledged as groundbreaking work in understanding post-partition Punjab’s cultural matrix. He is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Warwick Institute of Advanced Study.