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The Waiting Game

The Waiting Game tells the heart-rending stories of Manjuben, Bhanuben, Nidhi, and Ravi—one left bereft by the arrest of her husband and another grappling with the arrest of her brother at the indiscernible international maritime border line (IMBL) shared between India and Pakistan in the Arabian Sea. The stories in the coastal villages of Gujarat and Diu in West India are not isolated. Behind the statistical figures lie the untold stories of numerous women, struggling to cope with the absence of a steady income that thrusts them into the depths of poverty, often compelling them to make agonizing choices, such as deciding between the education of their daughters and sons. In the patriarchal societal framework of India, the decision becomes painfully evident.

The Waiting Game

NR 2025
The Fool of Posillipo and Other Stories

In the winter of 1882, the physiologist and scientist Étienne-Jules Marey spent hours on the beach of Posillipo in Naples, pointing an odd-shaped gun at flying birds. The locals started calling him "the fool of Posillipo," as no one ever heard a gunshot. Nor did any birds die. Or, perhaps, Marey was involved in an imperceptible process of killing, shooting birds twelve times a second with his latest invention, the chronophotographic gun - a precursor to moving image technology. The audio-visual assemblage locates the "gun camera" as a speculative prototype of imperialist technology, shadowing related practices from the colonial sport of bird hunting to cartography, anthropometry, ethnographic field recordings, and modern warfare.

The Fool of Posillipo and Other Stories

NR 2025
Denmo - Himalayan Brown Bear

In the rarefied heights of the western Himalayas, an ancient creature that has featured in folklore and fever dreams for centuries, still prowls. The Brown Bear, or Ursus arctos isabellinus, was here before human settlements, villages, or electrified and militarized border fences arrived. Yet, today humans and the bears find themselves caught in an uneasy truce, a hostility over territory that doesn’t bode well for either species. Niazul Hassan Khan is a young wildlife scholar, a local who has known displacement from a troubled home too. He has returned to his community in Drass, Kargil to understand the Brown Bear, and broker peace between the animals and his people. As climate change hastens the glacial melt, and shortens winters, wreaking havoc on mountain communities, Niaz and his guide trek through the mountains searching for answers and a lasting possibility of survival for the land, its people, and the bear.

Denmo - Himalayan Brown Bear

NR 2025
Isosceles Forest

This work is an optical collage, a loop of images dissolving into each other in a combination of animated gestures. The name echoes mathematician Richard Bellman’s 1955 Forest Problem (“What is the best path to follow in order to escape a forest of known dimensions?”). Here the overlapping and intermingling of images fading in and out of each other seems to look for new propositions, the images follow segmented routes as if seeking out the best possible path to freedom.

Isosceles Forest

NR 2025
A Taste of Utopia

Ten thousand siddhas, experts in advanced techniques of Transcendental Meditation and Yogic Flying, gather in India to create the “Maharishi Effect” through long-term group practices. Reduction of crime and violence, reduction of international tensions and improvement of the quality of life in society – these are the global effects when at least 10,000 meditators gather. Is it magic? Or a new scientific paradigm? These are the questions that experts, scientists, teachers and famous followers such as David Lynch are trying to answer.

A Taste of Utopia

NR 2025