19/08/2023
Uzma Falak is a DAAD Doctoral Fellow at the University of Heidelberg where she is pursuing her PhD in Anthropology. Her poetry, essays, articles and reportage have appeared in The Baffler Magazine, Adi Magazine, Al Jazeera English, Warscapes, The Caravan, Himal Southasian, Kindle Magazine, Jadaliyya, Anthropology and Humanism, The Economic and Political Weekly, Himalaya Journal, The Electronic Intifada, The Palestinian Chronicle, New Internationalist including anthologies and collections like Gossamer: An Anthology of Contemporary World Poetry, Of Occupation and Resistance: Writings from Kashmir, Cups of Nunchai, among others. She won an Honourable Mention in the Society for Humanistic Anthropology’s Ethnographic Poetry Award. She was also an invited artist-scholar at the 2018 Warwick Tate Exchange held at the Tate Modern where she deployed sound, film and embroidery as forms of inquiries.
Through intergenerational narratives, archival photographs, grassroots’ memory practices, poems and women’s songs, her documentary film Till Then The Roads Carry Her explores Kashmir women’s lifeworlds and repertories of resistance as alternate epistemes and seeks to disrupt the official histories and exoticised iconographies. It has been screened at the 2nd Annual Memory Studies Association Conference (University of Copenhagen), The 24th European Conference on South Asian Studies (University of Warsaw), Karlstorkino (Heidelberg), Tate Modern (London), CineDiaspora Film Festival (New York), School of Arts and Aesthetics (JNU), 12th IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival (New Delhi) and Open Frame Film Festival and Forum 2015 (New Delhi) among others.
