There is Something in the Air

There Is Something In The Air by Iram Ghufran is a documentary essay featuring a series of dream narratives and accounts of spiritual possession, as experienced by women ‘petitioners’ at the shrine of a Sufi saint in North India.

The film invites the viewer to a fantastical world, where fear and desire are expressed through dreams and ‘afflictions of air’. The drama unfolds via dreams, and appearances of djinns and disappearances of women. The film explores how a personhood may also be expanded through a relationship of reverie with non-human forces.