Caribbean Food Journeys from there to here’
This food stories project collected recipes from Windrush people and filmed them cooking and sharing their food across the family generations and with friends.
The cooks also produced recipe cards so people of different cultures can cook and enjoy the food and research was undertaken into the history of some of the main ingredients used in the dishes.
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A WALK THROUGH HISTORY
Child of Empire is an animated VR documentary which puts you inside the shoes of a 7 year old child during the largest forced migration in human history, the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan.
An interactive experience built for Oculus Quest, the film navigates sectarianism, colonialism and identity at a time of deep political crisis.
Throughout the experience, you are guided by a 7 year old child (The Child of Empire), whose story is a kaleidoscope of three real life witness recounts. The viewer, as an imaginary friend to the Child, witnesses key moments in the migration journey. You could be hiding from a violent mob in the backroom of a shop with Ishar Das Arora, a Punjabi farmer boy from Attock; accidentally glimpsing a truck piled with dead bodies when arriving in Pakistan with Zarina Akram, a Mohajir girl who fled her home in Delhi on the day of Eid, and rejoicing at the eventual independence of the subcontinent with Tarapada De in a refugee camp in Bengal.
Interspersed throughout the journey are historical flashbacks, built with archive content, which educate the viewer about this critical moment in history.
