Karoonjhar In Motion
A Video Portrait by Haroon Habib
In this evocative video project, cohort artist Haroon Habib captures the spirit of Karoonjhar through movement, music, and memory. Shot across the rugged pink granite landscape and echoing with folk melodies and festival rhythms, Karoonjhar in Motion offers a cinematic homage to a region where myth meets resistance.
In this music video by The Sketches, filmed and edited by Haroon Habib, song becomes map. As the lyrics by poet Aziz Gul traverse forgotten ponds, borderless dunes, and sacred villages, from Kaasbo to Choorio, the camera lingers not on grandeur, but on the quiet beauty of simplicity. Children play, women walk barefoot, and the land breathes. Habib’s lens, true to his visual language, evokes innocence rather than spectacle. The piece captures a gentle reverence for land, language, and longing. Making regions of Nagarparkar eternal through song and image. In every frame, there is a subtle call to remember, and a soft resistance against erasure.
This audiovisual work by Haroon Habib features music by The Sketches, adding voice to the call for peace and prosperity in Aman ji Nagri — the land of peace, Nagarparkar. The piece invites viewers into a trance-like landscape where sound becomes prayer and stillness becomes resistance. Beyond Echoes of Karoonjhar Residency documentation, it's quiet invocation of harmony, memory, and the right to dwell in dignity on sacred soil.
Artist Statement
Haroon Habib is a filmmaker and visual artist from Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan, known for his evocative and often experimental approach to storytelling. He has collaborated with The Sketches and Lahooti, contributing his cinematographic sensibility to projects that blend music, land, and cultural memory.
Haroon’s work stands out for its ability to capture mood and texture—whether through handheld, observational shots or more stylized visual compositions. He has been part of projects that explore Sindh’s spiritual and ecological landscapes, often working behind the camera during residencies, music videos, or archival initiatives led by Saif Samejo and the broader Lahooti network.
His visual language brings a sensitive eye to fleeting moments—clouds over granite hills, a solitary performer mid-song, or the lived rhythms of a village awakening to sound and story.
