ABJD and Tomorrow We Inherit the Earth is a series of four films that narrates the otherworldly journeys of Faluda Islam, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s alter-ego. Faluda was a fighter in a great future queer-led revolution that liberated the Muslim world from Western and Western-sponsored tyranny. She was killed in a battle and exists now as ghost, zombie, jinn, and alien. She appears as each of these beings in each of the four films while simultaneously speaking to figures from resistance past in an attempt to understand her own story.
The book contains screenplays, film stills, and documentation from Bhutto’s ABJD series, as well as essays and poems by Jyoti Arvey, Ronak K. Kapadia, Salar Mameni, Yomna Osman, and Abdullah Qureshi. This project is heavily inspired by Islamic mysticism and spiritual traditions that speak to loss, memory, and resilience. It is dedicated to Bhutto’s late father, Mir Murtaza Bhutto, a grassroots political activist who was killed outside his home in Karachi, Pakistan in 1996.
With texts by Jyoti Arvey, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Ronak K. Kapadia, Salar Mameni, Yomna Osman, and Abdullah Qureshi