Connecting people through art 

The film, titled Four Acts of Recovery, follows a fisher family from

the Indus Delta as they turn to practices of drawing and painting to

navigate unprecedented infrastructural violence and climate collapse.

Displaced from their ancestral creek of Mul to the city of Karachi,

this family searches for old and new ways of maintaining sacred

relation with their shrines and disappearing homelands. As the delta

is fast submerged by the sea, the work traces how visual practices are

being mobilized and transformed by coastal communities to engender new

forms of devotion, dissent and belonging. It connects the emerging

practice of painting landscape-murals of sacred shrines and ancestral

creeks, to Islamic traditions of drawing talismans for protection and

recovery. Drawing becomes a sacred ritual that makes space for the

vastness and abundance of sacred and ecological worlds amidst

annihilation.