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Indi, 2022, film still: a mother and child crossing a Black Country street, lit by a single street lamp.
Indi · 2022 · Artist film · FLAMIN Productions, Film London & New Art Exchange

Indi

Indi film still: close-up of the mother in a red dupatta, washing line behind her in the dark.
Indi film still: a woodland camp at night, figures gathered around a fire, washing strung between trees, suitcases on the ground.
Indi film still: Hindu temple at dusk, a flag flying from the gopuram, the sky turning cold blue.
Indi film still: a couple in a garden at night, the man in a blue turban and red kurta, the woman in a lilac dupatta, a figure watching from the shadows behind.
Indi film still: a mother and child walking hand in hand on a Black Country street, an industrial building behind them.
Indi film still: a CRT television on a wooden pallet floating on green canal water, a Bollywood film playing on the screen.

Indi is an artist film based on a novella I wrote in 2017, inspired by the story of the first great hope of a professional British Asian footballer. The work entered the inner worlds of mother and son in the last stretches of life. For Indi, it is metaphoric, the death of a dream. For his mother, it is actual: she is summoned into the afterlife by Sadar, a stalker of souls on Black Country canals.

The work moves through Indi's loving relationship with his seamstress mother, domestic scenes, and rich VFX compositing sequences. It follows an in-between world of imagination, where people wait to be taken by the Sardar to journey into the next life. A long FLAMIN development period preceded the production. The film was the centrepiece of the solo exhibition [Traveller, Your Footprints] at New Art Exchange, Nottingham, in autumn 2022.

Funded by Arts Council England. Commissioned by FLAMIN Productions through Film London Artists' Moving Image Network and New Art Exchange.

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