Scene 32 (5 mins.)

Shambhavi Kaul (Durham, NC)
Thursday 6:15 PM at the Fox Theatre
Saturday 2:00 PM at the Nickelodeon Theatre
Scene 32 maps the indistinct terrain that lies between a beloved place and the objects that represent it. The salt fields of Central Kutch are examined through High Definition video and hand processed Hi contrast 16mm film to become another thing altogether: neither a specific place in India nor its representation, but a new landscape of unrecognizable precipices and gullies, an inhospitable territory of longing. The bare frankness of HD alternates with the flawed beauty of the hand processed film to create a rebuilt world of untouchable textures and unfathomable scale, just as memory reconstructs places beyond their existence.