When you’re the youngest of nine siblings, you get used to other voices intruding on your own. “I have this very volatile family,” says film-maker Rehana Zaman with a smile. “I’m 41 now and the eldest is in her early 50s, so we are all close in age.”
Maybe this is why her films often have multiple voices and viewpoints playing out alongside each other. In 2021’s Alternative Economies, interactions with a botanist and a financial regulator make unlikely bedfellows as Zaman tries to draw links between herbal medicine, cryptocurrency and our urge to break out of the oppressive systems that control our lives.
