Ocean Mud Pickle

Documentary Feature | Oriya with English Subtitles | India | Paribartana Mohanty

The abandoned village of Satabhaya, often submerged by natural disasters and rising sea levels, is a place of memory and speculation. Near Bhitarkanika crocodile reserve and Gahirmatha Beach, its future might be as a wildlife sanctuary or underwater habitat. This video explores Satabhaya’s climate stories and ‘queering’ process through archives, memories, and maps, transforming interviews and field notes into poetry and Daskathia folk songs and dance.

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 About the Filmmaker

Paribartana Mohanty, born in 1982 in Odisha, India, is a multimedia artist working with new media, video, performance lectures, and painting. He earned his BFA from Dhauli College of Art and Craft, Bhubaneswar in 2004 and an MA in History of Art from the National Museum Institute, New Delhi in 2006.