Panchsheel Gaikwad is a documentary filmmaker and artist from Pune, India, now based in London. His practice traces the intersections of caste, migration, and intergenerational memory. Drawing on family histories and Ambedkarite legacies, his films move between the personal and the political to explore how the past remains active in the present.

His films are structured as acts of inquiry and address. Rather than explaining or resolving, they invite viewers to think alongside the work, holding questions open and foregrounding what persists, approaching cinema as a space for reflection, provocation, and discussion.

Alongside filmmaking, his work includes ongoing engagement with Marathi Ambedkarite literature and visual culture, focused on digitisation and circulation as ways of keeping political memory alive.


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