Hunza Valley and Kech Pakistan
Balochi with English subtitles
The film shows how the filmmaker is pre-occupied in his subconscious, he is constantly entangled with thoughts of his identity in addition to the circumstances he is living in. As film progress he goes home, to seek peace. The film is a documentary, fictionalized by following the cinematic tradition of filmmakers from French new wave like Alain Resnais, Chris Marker and many more. The film's self reflective and self referential nature qualifies it as an essay film. It contextualizes the motif of mountains and barren land in very new and fresh way. The visual and the sound is dialectically juxtaposed for the subject who finds peace in the unrest and restlessness in a peaceful place. The film is visually divided into two parts, initially filmmaker where he is struggling to attain peace in mountains. Overall, composition of the frame is very dynamic. Whereas the framing in the end portion is completely different, almost opposite of it. In sound design, gunshots were added to enhance the mental disturbance of the filmmaker. The goal of the film was to show how human beings are being normalised into conditions which are not appropriate to live in.
The conflict of sub conscious and existing reality of filmmaker about where he belongs.
"I think experimental film making was key point for me to work on this project and its techniques. When I was filming in my hometown, security threats were something which made me think twice before opening my camera to shoot. Because we can't openly film there, states operatives always try to impose their narrative and poses a real threat to life for example forced disappearance, and being abducted. These ground realities were highlighted."