Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations 2024 Presentation — All That Perishes at the Edge of Land (2019) by Hira Nabi

Synopsis

Ocean Master, a decommissioned container vessel, enters into a dialogue with several workers at the Gadani yards. The conversation moves between dreams, desires, places that can be called home, and the violence embedded in the act of dismantling a ship at Gadani. As the workers recall the homes and families they left behind, the long work days mesh indistinguishably into one another, and they are forced to confront the realities of their work in which they are faced with death every day. How may they survive and look towards the future? The film looks at the bodies, lives (and afterlives) and livelihoods entangled within the shipbreaking industry

About Hira Nabi

Hira archives testimonials and witnessing through cinema, performance, and writing. Her practice explores plural temporalities, sites of collapsing ecologies and vulnerable landscapes, linking histories of colonial extraction with ongoing violence, networks and infrastructures of labour, and articulating gestures of care as a way to find justice and dignity, alongside survival. She lives and works between Amsterdam and Lahore.