Sardar Arshad Khan :: Szczecin Film Festival 2020

Sardar Arshad Khan

About the artist

Born in India, Sardar Arshad was a renegade architect who has worked as a construction site supervisor and freelance assistant on documentaries and feature films. He was an advertising copywriter in Mumbai and Delhi for almost a decade before deciding to get a film education from Łódź, Poland. He has recently graduated from The Polish National Film School with a Masters in Cinematography. Currently - he is sitting on the fence, loving both - fiction and documentary films equally.

Filmography:

Touch of Freedom (2015)

Twice Born, Thursday Photographer (2014 )
In the hospitality of a Polish Maharaja (2012)
Cupid, The Meal (2012)
The Head, The Little Box (2011)

Gallery

Films

Touch of Freedom, 11’38’’

Production: PL 2015

Poland has a tradition of coal mining existing for more than 200 years. After the excruciating hard work inside the deep, dark, hot and claustrophobic environment of the coal mines, some of the Polish miners return home to nurture a hobby that makes us wonder about the journey they make every day to earn their living and also to nurture a special passion - they raise postal pigeons. The film observes, without using any words, the dark strong contrast that exists in the two spaces that the miners traverse every day - the pitch-black darkness of the mines and the open skies the miners gaze at as their pigeons fly everyday to keep fit. What does it say about the miners? What does it say about us as human beings?