Muntaha Amin
Seige in the Air
Kashmiri Women Piece Together Life Amidst Communication Blockades
Year:
2022
Length:
30 min
Country:
India
Language:
Kashmiri/Hindi/Urdu/English
Director:
Muntaha Amin
SYNOPSIS
Women in Indian Administered Kashmir weave memory threads to piece together a narrative of what it feels to live under perpetual uncertainty and unending cycles of lockdowns in Kashmir, laying focus on the recent communication blockade of 2019, post the Article 370 abrogation.
about the director
Muntaha Amin is a researcher, a doctoral student in the University of Kashmir and an independent woman film practitioner. She identifies as a Kashmiri Muslim Woman and tells stories from living this triply marginalised identity.
Her debut film, Siege in the Air documents the lived experiences of young Kashmiri women in perpetual precarity and unending lockdowns in Kashmir centering around the communication blockade of 2019 post the Article 370 abrogation. She works as a narrative editor, cultural consultant and film practitioner on freelance film and multimedia projects.
