Shubigi Rao

Talking Leaves

16 August 2023 / 9–11.30 pm CEST

Introduction by Sophie Goltz, Director, Salzburg International Summer Academy. Followed by a Q&A with Shubigi Rao & Sophie Goltz.

Talking Leaves is both a prescient and timely artistic documentary. Filmed solo, it spans multiple sites across the world to form a polyvocal, mythopoetic film about the censorship of books, destruction of libraries, assaults on knowledge and free press, and the loss of languages in embattled communities. Like leaves of an enduring tree, the voices of multiple people and their actions demonstrates the persistent value and power of books, archives, shadow and pirate libraries as vehicles of resistance.

 

Shubigi Rao, Talking Leaves, 2022, 90 min