Experimental DOCUMENTARY
One, if by Land is not a film that attempts to have answers to the noisy debate around immigration policies, but through grim and evocative imagery of these journeys, it raises questions as to why this impossibility should exist in the first place. It explores the politics of undocumented immigration to the global North via land, sea and air. Inspired by three stories of real voyages made from Mexico, China and Mozambique, this film looks at the impossibility of arrival, a visual commemoration of the unknown immigrant.
Duration: 14 minutes
Year: 2015
Director: Nandini Sikand
Cinematography: Andy Smith & Joel Vargas
Editor: Alexia Prichard
Screenings
Immigration Film Festival, Virtual, 2022
Auntyland Film Festival, New York City, 2022
Heritage Film Festival, Prince George’s County, MD, 2021
Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, U.K, 2021
Let’s All Be Free Film Festival, London, U.K, 2015
Ethnografilm Paris, France, 2016
Show Me Justice Film Festival, Warrensburg, MO, 2016
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, CA, 2016
Woods Hole Film Festival, MA, 2016
Southside Film Festival, PA 2016
Middle Coast Film Festival, IN, 2016
Pittsburg Independent Film Festival, PA 2016
Katra Film Series, NY, 2016
Accolades
2011 and 2015 Richard King Mellon Research ARC Fellowship.
Best Documentary Short
Socially Relevant Film Festival, New York City, 2016.
Honorable mention
Annual University of Film & Video Conference, 2015.