Music in a Village Named 1PB
Surabhi Sharma / Long Documentary / India / Hindi, Saraiki / 02:10:30 / 2024
In a landscape of shifting sands, a community enclosed into grids with no name, just a number, rehearses its music in villages like 1 PB, a dot in the Thar desert, at the Indian side of the India-Pakistan border.
This landscape is home to Mirs, a muslim community who are the custodians of a timeless poetry, and practitioners of a music not bound to ‘quam’ (religion) or ‘desh’ (nation). But the land has now degraded, boundaries have hardened and the music has become a whisper. This film gleans songs and poems to stitch a portrait of a group of musicians struggling to keep their inheritance of Islamic Sufi and Hindu Bhakti music alive.
Cast & Crew:
- Director & Producer: Surabhi Sharma
- DoP: Ramani R V
- Editor: Diksha Sharma
- Sound Recordist and Sound Designer: Amala Popuri
- Sound Mixer: Dhiman Karmakar
- Color Grading: Malay Ray
Director’s Bio
Surabhi Sharma
Surabhi has been an independent filmmaker making feature-length documentaries and short films since 2000. Her documentaries, fiction, and video installations engage with cities in transition using the lens of labor, music, and migration.
Surabhi is Associate Professor of Practice at the Film and New Media program and is currently serving as Associate Dean for the Arts and Creative Practices at the New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE.
