Slow Shift reflects on the intersections between myth and reality. The remains of a 14th century city, a World Heritage Site in Hampi, India (in Sanskrit, the name means “City of Victory”), are showcased while being overrun by the sacred langurs, a genus of “old world monkeys”, revealing an uncanny co-existence between past and present. It’s only man who no longer seems to have a place here. The film received the International Jury Prize at the Pesaro International Film Festival of New Cinema and was selected for Toronto International Film Festival and New York Film Festival among others.

Shambhavi Kaul is an experimental filmmaker whose projects speculate on the possibilities for cinematic storytelling to build worlds. Her films make temporal and spatial demarcations porous by reorganizing cinematic space and layering historical, mythical, geological, ecological and cultural timescales. Her work has been showcased globally at festivals like Toronto, Berlinale and Rotterdam, as well as at museums including MoMA and Tate. Originally from Jodhpur, India, she now teaches at Duke University in the U.S.

Available for online screening from 10 December