CIRCUIT's 2026 Curator-at-Large is Anuj Malhotra.
Anuj is a filmmaker, critic and curator based out of New Delhi, India. He works as an individual practitioner and with the New Delhi group Kaddukkas. Recent curatorial projects include Symptoms of a Forest, a collection of experimental and structural films that 'formulate the contours of a mythical, undeclared landscape' (Bangkok Experimental Film Festival 2025); and Inscriptions in the Air ( Nepal Art Council, Kathmandu). Anuj first began working with Kaddukkas to develop The Seeds Sprout Dreams (2024), a project that investigates and re-enacts folk infrastructures through which film is shared, seen, spoken of and remembered in South Asia. Anuj also publishes Umbra, the country’s only newspaper devoted to the study of the topographies of alternative film in India
Since mid-2025 Anuj has been working with CIRCUIT to develop a new series of Artist Cinema Commissions by artists from Aotearoa and India. The resulting programme will premiere in Aotearoa in 2026 before touring venues locally and internationally.
As a filmmaker, Anuj’s work has been shown at International Film Festival of Rotterdam, Sheffield DocFest, FCDEP, IDFFSK, Sinema Transtopia, Kochi Biennale, Habitat Film Festival, Museum of Art and Photography (MAP), SET Lewisham and Microscope Gallery.
Anuj’s writing has been cited and published in photogenie, Senses of Cinema, mubi.com, Le Quotidien de l’Art, Bright Lights Film Journal, The Asian Age, Deccan Chronicle, The Tribune, Verve, Deep Focus Cinema, and cinea.be. He has presented at forums including Sheffield Doc/Fest (Sheffield, UK), Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (Thailand), Eyemyth Festival (India), Nepal Art Council (Kathmandu), Five Million Incidents (India), Woche Der Kritik (Germany), SAVVY Contemporary (Germany), The Listening Biennale (India) and Serendipity Arts Festival (India).