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Slow Shift

North American Premiere

The immediacy of time is eerily visible upon Hampi’s fragmented landscape. As its primate inhabitants formulate their familiar yet uncertain surroundings, the UNESCO site endures.

 

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Community Partner

Director
Credits
Country of Origin

India/USA

Year

2023

Language

No Dialogue

Film Contact
18+
9 min

Credits

Cinematography

Josh Gibson

Editor

Lalitha Krishna

Director

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Shambhavi Kaul

Shambhavi Kaul has exhibited her work worldwide at such venues as the Toronto International Film Festival, the Berlinale, The New York Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Edinburgh International Film Festival, the London Film Festival, the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, and Experimenta Bangalore. Her work has been featured at the Tate Modern and the 10th Shanghai Biennale. She has presented a retrospective of her films at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and two solo shows at Jhaveri Contemporary in Mumbai. She was born in Jodhpur India, and lives in the United States where she teaches at Duke University.

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