Shumona goel biography of albert

Shumona Goel has been making short personal films on 35mm and 16mm film formats for several years now. Her main concern has been the exploration of issues of displacement and migration. This grant supports Shumona’s project Family Tree—a film installation, for public space—which will enable her to extend her current practice and deconstruct the film form as she moves from single screen to multiple screens.

As Shumona says: “Formally, film is separated into its elements: photography, motion film, and sound- Seamless forms like documentary cannot capture the fragmented experience of migration.

By contrast, ‘Family Tree’ displays the film form in parts in order to emphasize the disruptive and incoherent migrant experience.” A family tree is a map people use to locate themselves in history. They draw branches to forge links to ancestors or roots and subsequently assume that family members share similar traits.

Shumona points out, however, that