In 2024, I finally went back home to Kerala. My father and I decided to take a trip to Kashmir together—a place he’d always dreamed of seeing but never could because he was busy raising us and handling responsibilities.
While we were there, a massive landslide blocked the roads, trapping us for five days. Even though we were stuck, it turned into a rare moment of connection. My father spent those days on the phone with my mother, recounting every detail of the trip. I spent that time filming him, documenting his perspective and his stories.
When I returned to Auburn, I met a local musician named JS Davani. He told me about his own father, a man who had traveled nearly everywhere on earth. I realized there was a beautiful contrast between these two lives. So I created a short experimental documentary that brings these two parallel lives together. It layers the audio of Davani’s father—who spent a lifetime traveling the globe—over the visuals I captured of my father’s very first big journey.
