Sania Khan
The Space In Between
Liminality is the threshold between where we once were and where we are moving toward. It is a space that is simultaneously in motion and in utter stillness.
The threshold as a navigational axis point isn't interested in arrival.
What if we never arrive?
Are we even meant to arrive?
The threshold is a space that reveals our unbecoming, our messy and our non-linear. It is the site on which breakthroughs are catalyzed, and new wisdoms are unveiled.
For Black, Indigenous, racialized, LGBTQIA2S+, disabled, and working class communities, liminality is the site on which we perpetually reside. Alongside the rupturing of old systems in this moment, our communities have alchemized within liminal spaces through processes of collective grieving, healing and dreaming. Even while navigating deep systemic unrest, our communities have not only re-imagined
new worlds, we've simultaneously reclaimed the joy, ease, and rest that is our birthright.
This experimental short film is a collective meditation on the theme of liminality as an ever-present landscape for our communities. By weaving together voice recordings submitted by sacred community, this short film provides a multi-sensory, dreamlike exploration into the ways in which we're currently alchemizing the scope of this moment to motion through time, space and self.
The Space In Between, 2021
Short Experimental Film
About Sania Khan
Sania Khan (she/they) is an award-winning human rights scholar, filmmaker, community organizer and cultural curator who is currently operating out of Scarborough, Tkaronto. Sania's interdisciplinary practice is rooted in systems change and liberated futures. As a human rights researcher, Sania is primarily invested in exploring the convergence between counter-archival practices, intergenerational place-making, and healing justice for historically marginalized peoples. Within her creative practice in film and curation, Sania is dedicated to re-imagining alternative futurisms in which collective care, joy and liberation are accessible to all. In their most recent venture as a social entrepreneur, Sania is weaving together their passion for human rights advocacy and film as Founder and Executive Director of Solar House Productions (SHP). SHP’s mission is to cultivate a creative ecosystem in which emerging filmmakers from marginalized backgrounds are able to receive professional development opportunities in order to step into their creative sovereignty. For more information on SHP, visit www.solarhouseproductions.ca.