Shambhavi Kaul

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Private Detective: Two Plus Two Plus One
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An urban contemporary film about adultery, murder and betrayal in the film noir style. A simple story to which the director imparts a feeling of unrest and disquiet, catching the city in its various moods. The film breaks generic conventions, notably in the presentation of the private detective through his deglamourised life and his process of discovery of 'who did it'. It is not constructed through his point of view at all. In fact the policeman and the detective, the fact finders, are in the dark about the crime, to the very end.
Nazar
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Nazar

Mar 06, 1991
Un homme réfléchit sur la complexité de son mariage, s’arrêtant sur différents moments du passé. La femme est la création idéalisée de son imagination. L’homme croit posséder la femme. Il ne se rend pas compte qu’elle finira par le posséder en particulier quand elle commence à manifester des signes d’indépendance. Des retranchements silencieux entre l’homme et la femme sont les premiers signes de cassure dans le couple. Les confrontations et réconciliations pleines de haine, de remords, d’espoir et de désespoir aboutissent à une fin tragique.
Drama
025 Sunset Red
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025 Sunset Red

Sep 08, 2016
Laida Lertxundi continues her exploration of the American West with the intimately scaled 025 Sunset Red, which folds in autobiography as she looks back to her parents' radical activism in Spain.
Slow Shift
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Slow Shift

Sep 09, 2023
A rich reflection on the intersections between myth and reality, as the filmmaker trains her camera on a World Heritage Site overrun by langurs in Hampi, India, revealing an uncanny co-existence between past and present.
Mount Song
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Mount Song

Sep 10, 2013
A strange yet familiar sense of place dominates Shambhavi Kaul's deceptively disorienting and visually entrancing Mount Song. As a wild, foreboding gust courses through the night, a subdued elegance is brought forth from past cinema spectacles, whose generic albeit highly suggestive set constructions remain lodged in our imaginary.
Night Noon
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Night Noon

Sep 08, 2014
Shambhavi Kaul sets up dialectical dread in Death Valley in a series of uncanny shots of geological formations, eroded mountains, dunes and dried lava contrasted against images of shimmering night skies.
Place for Landing
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Place for Landing

Feb 02, 2010
A household landscape of mirrors. A child and its reflection are inscribed in a shadowy lunar patchwork. The camera switches its optical pursuit: the child disappears and a bird emerges. The surveying mirror implodes or explodes into space. Its mottled hallway glass both indicates and becomes a PLACE FOR LANDING. After a series of clever misdirections by the mirror, all is redeemed by a fragment of song in this unsettling haptic illusion.
Scene 32
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Scene 32

Jan 01, 2009
Scene 32 maps the terrain that lies between a beloved place and the things that represent it. The salt fields of Central Kutch are examined through High Definition video and hand processed 16mm film to become another thing altogether: neither a specific location in India nor its representation but a rebuilt world of precipices and gullies, untouchable textures and unfathomable scale.
Scene 32
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Scene 32

Jan 01, 2009
Scene 32 maps the terrain that lies between a beloved place and the things that represent it. The salt fields of Central Kutch are examined through High Definition video and hand processed 16mm film to become another thing altogether: neither a specific location in India nor its representation but a rebuilt world of precipices and gullies, untouchable textures and unfathomable scale.
Scene 32
5

Scene 32

Jan 01, 2009
Scene 32 maps the terrain that lies between a beloved place and the things that represent it. The salt fields of Central Kutch are examined through High Definition video and hand processed 16mm film to become another thing altogether: neither a specific location in India nor its representation but a rebuilt world of precipices and gullies, untouchable textures and unfathomable scale.
21 Chitrakoot
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21 Chitrakoot

Sep 07, 2012
21 Chitrakoot exhumes a mystical land composed of 1980s chroma-key backdrops from a famous Indian television series.
21 Chitrakoot
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21 Chitrakoot

Sep 07, 2012
21 Chitrakoot exhumes a mystical land composed of 1980s chroma-key backdrops from a famous Indian television series.
21 Chitrakoot
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21 Chitrakoot

Sep 07, 2012
21 Chitrakoot exhumes a mystical land composed of 1980s chroma-key backdrops from a famous Indian television series.
Hijacked
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Hijacked

Oct 08, 2017
Airplane space is inhabited by characters for whom ‘escape’, one of the promises of airplane technology, proves elusive.