Join Alserkal Arts Foundation for a screening of The Blind Rabbit by filmmaker and Fall 2024 resident, Pallavi Paul.
'The Blind Rabbit’ (2020) interrogates the brutality of a populist state. Chronicling the systemic abuse of power as it manifests in key, seemingly unrelated events from the 1970s to present day India, the film captures the resulting psychological fragmentation and trail of fear left in their wake.
From the Indian national emergency of 1975-77, to communal conflict and faith-based discrimination, the recent attacks on civil liberties don’t appear as moments that can be reported or captured fully, but as pulsing wounds. The film extends the idea of ‘blindness’ not as a loss of capacity, but a ploy and a counterforce to the hubris of state histories and power.
The film screening will be followed by a conversation between Pallavi Paul and Carolin Köchling, who will speak about The Blind Rabbit within the context of Paul’s wider practice. They will also touch upon the artist’s research focus for her residency at Alserkal Arts Foundation around the rituals of mourning in the Gulf, building on her recent projects around death as the porous, shifting and sometimes even generative gap between the living and the departed.
Date: Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Time: 7PM - 8.30PM
Venue: Common Room, WH51, Alserkal Avenue
