Amirtha Kidambi

A new production of Robert Ashley's 1991 opera, "Improvement (Don Leaves Linda," featuring Gelsey Bell, Amirtha Kidambi, Brian McCorkle, Paul Pinto, Dave Ruder and Aliza Simons. Music Director: Tom Hamilton Live Sound and Processing: Tom Hamilton Stage Design and Lighting: David Moodey Producer: Mimi Johnson Presented at the Kitchen (New York), February 7 through 16, 2019. This video was recorded live by Iki Nakagawa (with Joseph Bacon and Al Foote III) on February 14, 2019. Audio recorded by Eric Sherman; remixed by Tom Hamilton.

A two-channel experimental film explores interwoven narratives of struggle against Portuguese colonialism, uncovering the intercontinental network of relations that developed between historical figures in Goa, Mozambique, Angola, and Guinea-Bissau.

Sanzgiri's father was 18 when India ousted the last remaining Portuguese colonisers from Goa in 1961. Combining 16mm with drone footage, desktop screenshots, and Skype interviews with his father, Sanzgiri utilises various modes of seeing at a distance to question identity, the construction of memory and anti-colonial solidarity across continents.