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On Hands
A Tactile Way of Understanding
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70 mins | English | 2018
In a time when our experiences of the world are mediated through technology, this introspective, poetic film focuses our attention on an essential and tactile way of understanding it. By documenting the work of 20 makers and artist, this feature-length project explores the satisfaction they derive from working with their hands. On Hands had a special opportunity to reach a particular audience who were stuck at home due to the pandemic. The subjects in the film insist that an intuitive, obsessive, and committed use of their hands brings them a primal satisfaction and emotional sustenance that goes beyond a conventional understanding of the world.
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Lajwanti P Waghray
Lajwanti, who received Milwaukee Films, Brico Fund, and Marquette’s 2022-23 Emerging Filmmaker Fellowship, is producing Arthur Byas, which examines how a racialized justice system affects the lives of Black Americans. Also in process is Searching for Sparrows, a feature-length documentary about four citizens finding solutions to the loss of bird habitats in Hyderabad, due to rapid urbanization.
Together, Alone recounts one doctor’s isolation at home. In 2009, she co-directed the third film in Janet Fitch’s Guns, Grief, and Grace in America series. In 2008, she co-produced Ramon Rivera-Moret’s On Calloway Street about immigrants in Queens, New York. Waghray also volunteers for a domestic violence agency and is on the Board of Lynden Sculpture Garden.
