A 14-minute time machine to a Punjab that no longer exists — shot by a Scottish teacher with a camera and curiosity.
Richly detailed amateur ethnographic film on the agrarian economy and society in rural Punjab.
Cinematography
Staggering 1925 handheld intimacy with rural labor.
Production
Amateur footage that accidentally became invaluable archive.
Director
James Fairgrieve
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director James Fairgrieve was a geography teacher at Edinburgh Academy who filmed this during a sabbatical; he never made another movie.
The British Film Institute restored this in 2019 specifically because it's one of the few surviving visual records of pre-Partition Punjabi village life — the same villages that would fracture violently in 1947.
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