The Blind Rabbit: Screening and Kōrero

Set against the backdrop of India’s most turbulent moments, from the National Emergency (1975–77) to more recent eruptions of state-backed violence, Pallavi Paul's The Blind Rabbit (2021) refracts history through the fragments of memory that survive official erasure. During the Emergency, many young children were arrested as alleged “delinquents.” As the country moved toward re-democratisation, they had to be released, left with only shards of recollection: trees, trains, a blind rabbit, traces of homes they could no longer fully remember.

With archival records lost and narratives suppressed, Paul's film turns to an imaginative reconstruction. It weaves eyewitness testimonies, rescued audio and video fragments, poetic imagery, and moments of fiction not as fabrication, but as a way of approaching what official accounts leave out. In doing so, it treats memory as an unfolding narrative, opening new ways of seeing the violence of power and the lives it renders invisible.

Presented by CIRCUIT and Satellites, the screening of The Blind Rabbit (43 minutes) followed by a Q&A between filmmaker Pallavi Paul and Balamohan Shingade.

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Pallavi Paul is a New Delhi-based visual artist. She received her PhD in Film Studies from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her work has been exhibited at the Sharjah Biennale (2025), where she was also one of the recipients of the Sharjah Artist Prize. Her institutional solo exhibitions include Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2024, 2023) and Berlinale Forum Expanded (2022) at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin. She has also participated in group exhibitions at the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (2023, 2022); New Alphabet School, HKW Berlin (2021, 2020); Colomboscope, Sri Lanka (2021); the Rubin Museum, New York (2019); Beirut Art Centre, Lebanon (2018); AV Festival, New Castle (2018, 2016); Contour Biennale, Mechelen (2017); and Tate Modern, London (2013). Her work is currently on display in the current edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale.

Pallavi Paul’s multidisciplinary practice spans film, installation, performance, drawing, and writing. Rooted in an exploration of upheaval — both personal and political — her work engages the resistance of space, image, text, sound, and the human body. Through poetry and imagination, she pushes the limits of vision; through documentary and fiction, she interrogates the histories of cinema; and through material experimentation and play, she rethinks cultures of space-making.