CIRCUIT's 2026 Curator-at-Large is Anuj Malhotra.
Anuj is a filmmaker, critic and curator based out of New Delhi, India.
Since mid-2025 Anuj has been working with CIRCUIT to research the work of New Zealand artists. In late 2025 Anuj and CIRCUIT will invite five filmmakers to each make a new single channel film for cinema in response to a curatorial prompt. The resulting programme will premiere in Aotearoa in 2026 before touring venues locally and internationally.
In 2024, Anuj was selected as one of five the resident curators from across South Asia for Arts Exchange: Moving Image, a project organized by The British Council, in collaboration with LUX Center for Artists’ Moving Image (UK) and Art South Asia Project (ASAP). As part of the residency, he is now working alongside the members of New Delhi group Kaddukkas, "an undulating collective of practitioners and their loved ones" to develop The Seeds Sprout Dreams, a project that investigates and reenacts folk infrastructures through which film is shared, seen, spoken of and remembered in South Asia.
As a filmmaker, his 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).
In 2012, he founded Lightcube, an acclaimed film collective, regularly touted as one of the leading resources for pioneering research and presentation of image-forms in India. He also helped conceive the theoretical model for The Dhenuki Cinema Project, a project that mobilises populations in rural and semi-urban areas of the country through the medium of film. Anuj also publishes Umbra, the country’s only newspaper devoted to the study of the topographies of alternative film in India, along with handling the curatorial duties for The Garga Archives, a digital museum dedicated to the life and work of B.D. Garga, one of the foremost authorities on the history of film in the world.