When the Tide Goes Out
Directed by Ajay Bhardwaj • 2022 • Canada • 117’
A generation of local cultural activists ruminate over their lives and activism in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland. The memories of intercommunity activism center on an episode of self-organization 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.
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