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DESH

Imran Perretta

Poetry, Politics and protest

2016

Country: UK

Duration: 8 mins

Colour,

Sound: Stereo

Ratio: 16:9

Available Format/s: HD Digital File

Original Format: HD Video

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Shot during a hartal (general strike) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, DESH chronicles the artist’s experience of anxiety attacks and hallucinatory dreams whilst stranded for days in a hotel room during the strike. ‘Desh’, meaning land in Bengali, meditates on contested notions of home, isolation and belonging in a cultural and geographical context that feels both dissonant and innate.

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