RADICLE CITY
Medium: HD Digital video, colour, B&W & sound.
Digital file conversion from 8mm, DV tape; archival footage.
Country: UK, India
Year: 2024
RADICLE CITY is a cinematic essay which imagines a future in which Bangalore’s gardens no longer exist. Narrated as a poetic address by a voice who has grown up in a city without trees, the film’s hybrid documentary and fictional narrative recovers and reinterprets archive footage of an unknown walker’s journey along a park that marks an old line of colonial segregation in the city. This is an old border with new lines: today the city is India's "silicon valley", an IT hub at the heart of a network of global capitalism. Moving restlessly back and forth between past and possible future, the film is at once an investigation into the city's complex colonial entanglements and their afterlives, and an elegy to the city’s gardens, fragile spaces of resistance in a metropolis which threatens their destruction.
Stills from Radicle City, 2024.
Official Festival Selections
Third Horizon Film festival, Miami USA (2025)
Alchemy Film and Video Festival, Hawick Scotland (2025)
SET film festival, London, UK (2024)
Antimatter [Media Art], Victoria BC (2024)
Q&A, Radicle City screening at Blickle Kino Belvedere 21, Vienna Austria; Q&A SET film festival, 2024
SET Film Festival Q&A