Minor History (2019)

Minor History is a portrait of Wahid Mohammed, the director's 90- year-old uncle, who was born in British India in the 1920s and later fled to Pakistan, where he became an army general, before settling in Buffalo, New York. It spans time with him at his small apartment, the pool table he frequents at the local Whole Foods, and a zoo. Yet his "identity" always remains opaque: the film bears witness to what is revealed in memory - traces documenting the forces that shape a life - and to the part of human subjectivity that cannot be expressed or known.