Rummaging For Pasts
Rummaging for Pasts is an experimental juxtaposition of two cinematic documents: the video diary of an international archaeological excavation and a collection of assorted eight millimeter found footage. The archaeologists, digging on the site of Monte Pollizzo in Sicily, are in pursuit of an ephemeral past, its people and its meaning; the found footage, excavated from a roadside junkyard in a Bombay flea market, embodies forgotten images of a collective memory.
2oo1, DV, 27 minutes, Color.

Credits
Directed, produced & written by: Ashish Avikunthak
Executive Producer: Ashwini Deo
Editing: Danna Rose, Ashish Avikunthak
Sound: David Hoe

Selected Festivals
2004 Vikalp- Films for Freedom, Bombay
2003 World Archaeology Congress, Washington