Suneil Sanzgiri: Here the Earth Grows Gold

Suneil Sanzgiri is an artist, researcher, and filmmaker. Spanning experimental video and film, animations, essays, and installations, his work contends with questions of identity, heritage, culture, and diaspora in relation to structural violence and anticolonial struggles across the Global South. Sanzgiri’s films offer sonic and visual journeys through family history, local mythology, and colonial legacies of extraction in Goa, India—where his family originates—deftly utilizing and vividly blending together 3D renderings, drone videography, photogrammetry and lidar scanning, 16 mm film and animation, archival footage, and desktop documentary practices. Sanzgiri’s work has been screened extensively at festivals and venues around the world and is the recipient of numerous awards.

Tausif Noor is a critic, curator, and PhD student in modern art history at the University of California, Berkeley. His criticism and essays have appeared in Artforum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, among other venues, as well as in various artist catalogues and monographs. He is a recipient of a 2023 Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, as well as a 2023 Andy Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant for Short Form Writing.