Naeem Mohaiemen

Jole Dobe Na (Those Who Do Not Drown), a film by Naeem Mohaiemen premieres in Kolkata at Experimenter-Hindustan Road. The film was conceived in response to a prompt given by Raqs Media Collective (for Yokohama Triennial 2020) to think about the afterlife of caregivers. In an empty hospital in Kolkata, a man faces protocols of blood, a subtly discriminatory office, and a vacant operating theater. His mind is on a loop of the last months of his wife’s life, when a quiet argument developed. When is the end of pharma-medical...