This event is a partnership between the 2024/2025 MVS Proseminar Series and fORUM, Mercer Union's ongoing series of talks, lectures, interviews, screenings, and performances.

Join Suneil Sanzgiri for an artist talk about the methods and material histories that inform his experimental filmmaking practice alongside his ongoing research into the anti-colonial liberation movements that brought an end to Portuguese occupation across Asia and Africa.

Marking the artist's first institutional solo exhibition in Canada, Mercer Union presents An Impossible Address from April 12–June 14, 2025, with an opening reception on Friday, April 11. Commissioned for the exhibition, the artist’s new film of the same name culminates over four years of research around the bonds of mutual struggle for freedom that developed between India and Africa against the Portuguese empire. The work is the final in a series of two films that trace the connections between various liberatory figures in India, Mozambique, Angola, and Guinea-Bissau. 

Suneil Sanzgiri is an artist, researcher, and filmmaker. His first institutional solo exhibition Here the Earth Grows Gold opened at the Brooklyn Museum in October 2023. His award-winning films have circulated widely at film festivals and art institutions across the world including Mass MoCA, Massachusetts (2024); Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio (2024); de Appel, Amsterdam (2024); Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh (2024); Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (2024); BFI London Film Festival (2024); Blackstar Film Festival, Philadelphia (2020 – 2024); e-Flux, New York (2023); moCa Cleveland (2022); The Menil Collection, Houston (2022); International Film Festival Rotterdam (2020–2022); Viennale, Vienna (2021); Open City Docs, London (2021); New York Film Festival (2020); and many more.

Image credit: Suneil Sanzgiri, still from An Impossible Address, 2025. Courtesy the artist.