The second screening of ‘Residency Reflections: A Showcase of Vasl Artists’ Association’s Film’ All That Perishes at the Edge of Land (2019) by Hira Nabi, who was an artist in residence at Vasl in 2018. Nabi explored Gadani’s shipwrecked yard as a site of fractured anecdotes and conflicting truths. Her work revisits assorted contrasting narratives regarding accidents, the ownership of ships, and ways of existing.

The screening was followed by a talk moderated by Adeela Suleman in conversation with Hira Nabi and Bashir Baloch.

All That Perishes at the Edge of Land, 2019 – a film by Hira Nabi

All That Perishes at the Edge of Land is a short film shot at the Gadani ship-breaking yard in Baluchistan, where old ships are dismantled by mostly migrant workers. The film looks at the bodies, lives (and afterlives), and livelihoods entangled within the shipbreaking industry and asks us to consider its costs and to assign culpability.

About Hira Nabi

Hira Nabi is a filmmaker and visual artist from Lahore who uses her practice to think through vulnerable ecologies, extraction, conditions of labour, care, memories and hauntings, colonial legacies, modernity, and temporality. In her work, witnessing is an act charged with radical possibility, and one that holds immense potential for collective responsibility and love.