Bulldozer Babu 2:28 mins
This stop-motion animation draws on the visual language of early silent cinema to stage a confrontation between a 19th-20th century Bengali feudal figure; the dhoti-clad Babu and the contemporary presence of a bulldozer. The work examines the psychological continuity between colonial hierarchies and present-day mechanisms of land acquisition and displacement. By juxtaposing the feudal body with the machine, the animation reflects on inherited structures of authority and the persistence of violence embedded within them. Through constructed sets and staged movement, the piece extends my broader interest in allegorical space into duration, allowing power to unfold across time rather than remain suspended.
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Clash of Perspectives 2:03 mins
This stop-motion animation draws on the hybrid visual language of Company School painting - a colonial era genre shaped by Indian court painters negotiating between miniature traditions and the imposed logic of Western one-point perspective. The work stages a duel-like encounter between two figures, embodying conflicting systems of seeing: multiplicity and flatness versus singular depth and linear order.
Through this confrontation, the animation reflects on the psychological and cultural dislocation produced by enforced shifts in vision. The struggle between perspectival regimes becomes a metaphor for broader processes through which dominant frameworks absorb or marginalise alternative ways of knowing. By animating this tension, the work extends my ongoing interest in allegorical space into a temporal negotiation of power and perception.
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The Secret Matriarchy 3:58 mins
This stop-motion animation unfolds as an absurd, humorous and speculative origin narrative tracing the evolutionary formation of a group of women, who recur throughout my broader body of work. Conceived as an introductory moving-image counterpart to a related series of paintings, the film situates these figures within a parallel narrative space. Although the visual language remains playful and allegorical, the evolving collective gestures toward micro-histories of women-led resistance across different geographies. Rather than depicting protest directly, the film imagines the gradual emergence of a shared agency and a parallel lineage developing beneath dominant historical narratives.
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