Memory Pictures - ACE429.3

Gupta talking about his parents and his own growing up in India and Canada. Photographs. VO of his mother’s words talking about emigration. Syal looking at statue of Lord Lawrence. Her VO says that Asians think of the "Sepoy Mutiny" as a war of independence. Slide projector. Photographs and film of Asians. Gupta says his parents didn’t accept his homosexuality. Photographs of him with a partner. VO extract from a letter from his mother saying she must find him a wife. Gupta and Dodd. Gupta driving. Advertising signs at Piccadilly Circus. VO extract from letter from his mother giving news of herself and his father. Syal speaking verse about "many selves", saying "… the mirror must reflect what cannot be seen". Syal looking at Gupta’s family photographs in an installation called Social Security (Showroom Gallery, Bethnal Green, 1988). Gupta talking about the death of his father who "disappeared" and whose body was eventually found in the morgue. Gupta comments that his father evidently had plenty of ID on him when he died, and wonders why it took the authorities several days to notify the family. Syal in Undercliffe Cemetery, Bradford. Her VO speaking verse wondering where the monuments to poor (Asian) people are to be found. Credits.