Film in the House of the Word: Shambhavi Kaul and Rachel Price

Filmmaker Shambhavi Kaul and poet Rachel Price will be premiering a collaborative installation of text and moving image.SHAMBHAVI KAUL's cinematic constructions conjure uncanny, science-fictive non-places. Described as creating ¿zones of compression and dispersion,¿ her work utilizes strategies of montage and recirculation, inviting an affective response while simultaneously measuring our capacity to know what we encounter. She had exhibited her work worldwide at venues such as the Toronto International Film Festival, The New York Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Ann Arbor Film Festival among others. RACHEL PRICE (B.A., Yale; Ph.D., Duke U.), works on Latin American, circum-Atlantic and particularly Cuban literature and culture; media and literature; and empire. She is currently completing a book entitled ¿The Object of the Atlantic: Concretude 1868-1968,¿ about the emergence of post-romantic aesthetics in Brazil, Cuba, and Spain in the wake of changes in empire and capitalism in the late nineteenth century. She is working on a new project on contemporary Cuban aesthetics entitled Planet/Cuba, and on a project on affect and slavery in nineteenth-century Caribbean literature. This event is made possible by the sponsorship of the Franklin Humanities Institute, the Duke Program in Literature, the Master of Fine Arts in Experimental and Documentary Arts, and the Center for Documentary Studies.