Unearthing the Archive

In her 2017 film “The Haunted”, artist and filmmaker Saodat Ismailova invokes the now extinct Turanian Tiger to examine historical changes that led to its own extinction. Now years later, Saodat revisits the impulses that brought “The Haunted” to life. In the process she unpacks the different trajectories - ecology, tradition, living with the non-human, colonialism, and the female universe — that dominate her oeuvre.

Followed by a supper reception.

Images by Don Wong