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Khichdi zine and recipe card
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 2023
Artist: Sara David (British)
Medium: Paper, risoprint, digital print
Object number: MISC.2024.142.CC.1-2
Description1. Khichdi zine
2. Khichdi recipe card
A riso and digital print publication and recipe card made as part of the artist's documentary for the NHS' 75th anniversary. The zine was launched during an event at Kiosk N1C in February 2024 in collaboration with Dishoom, who provided a chai stall.
Artist's statement:
Khichdi traces the interwoven histories of four First-Generation Indian women who live in Britain and have been working for the NHS since the early 2000s. Set around a dinner table, the film foregrounds the stories of the director's mother and aunties who reunite over a shared meal to reminisce over the decades-long friendship and careers. Through intimate hand-held shots, the film reveals the close bonds, forged from a place of love of nursing and caregiving at the Frances Newton Mission Hospital in Ferozepur, Punjab, where the women trained in the 1980s, and their shared experiences of nursing and training together in India to settling in Britain. Insertions of animations, paintings, khichdi making and family-archive footage thread together in an experimental documentary as the women reflect upon sisterhood, service, and migration through their deep ties to the NHS and its impression on their lives.
This project was commissioned by the BFI and Arts and Humanities Research Council for the NHS on Film collection. The film premiered at the BFI Southbank in November 2023 and was selected as one of the New-Brit Asian Shorts at the London Film Festival 2024.
2. Khichdi recipe card
A riso and digital print publication and recipe card made as part of the artist's documentary for the NHS' 75th anniversary. The zine was launched during an event at Kiosk N1C in February 2024 in collaboration with Dishoom, who provided a chai stall.
Artist's statement:
Khichdi traces the interwoven histories of four First-Generation Indian women who live in Britain and have been working for the NHS since the early 2000s. Set around a dinner table, the film foregrounds the stories of the director's mother and aunties who reunite over a shared meal to reminisce over the decades-long friendship and careers. Through intimate hand-held shots, the film reveals the close bonds, forged from a place of love of nursing and caregiving at the Frances Newton Mission Hospital in Ferozepur, Punjab, where the women trained in the 1980s, and their shared experiences of nursing and training together in India to settling in Britain. Insertions of animations, paintings, khichdi making and family-archive footage thread together in an experimental documentary as the women reflect upon sisterhood, service, and migration through their deep ties to the NHS and its impression on their lives.
This project was commissioned by the BFI and Arts and Humanities Research Council for the NHS on Film collection. The film premiered at the BFI Southbank in November 2023 and was selected as one of the New-Brit Asian Shorts at the London Film Festival 2024.
