Seema Gill Britain
60 Years in 60 Seconds
The life of a self-proclaimed ‘international gypsy’ condensed into one minute.
From a shy village girl to an independent woman riding her bike to emancipation, this film depicts the life of an Indian Punjabi Sikh woman, artist, poet, and writer.
- Photography & Direction:
- Seema Gill
- Camera:
- Chris Atkinson
- Edit:
- Seema Gill and Chris Atkinson
- Music:
- Jose Gross and Ryan Tyrel
- Music:
- Jo Hayden (drum), Monika Dutta (mix)
- Performer:
- Seema Gill
Seema Gill
Seema Gill
Seema Gill left India in 1973 to live in Denmark where she became an over glaze painter, a social worker fighting for the rights of immigrants and also founded a magazine, Soldue. She then spent several years travelling through Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda working as a journalist, art workshop leader and filmmaker. In 1992, she was commissioned to produce a film on women and the environment in Tanzania titled KUNI. Since then, she has lived in England where she has become an award winning poet and international performer of poetry, editor of Artpadd magazine and co-producer of the Paddington International Poetry Festival.
She now lives in Derbyshire where she has produced 30 murals working interactively with children and had held several exhibitions of paintings. Seema calls herself an ‘international gypsy’, a midnight child born at the time of the partition of India and Pakistan and all her life she has opposed racial conflicts. Her experiences have resulted in a search for peace and harmony, which has assisted her metamorphosis into a poet, writer, artist, photographer and video filmmaker.