If From Every Tongue it Drips — Sharlene Bamboat 2021
“Should I translate?” asks the figure on the bed, lying at the feet of the camera operator, in reference to the Hindi song playing on her phone. In this opening scene from Sharlene Bamboat’s , this innocuous question serves as a road map of what is to come: a film whose documentary medium is intimacy itself and whose axis of rotation is so often a lover’s translation. Traversing an epic ambit of themes—from the 1857 rebellion in India, to the erasure of queer desire in Urdu poetry, to quantum physics—it is notable that for all its reflections on film.
