Q. What was the idea behind curating Unknown Territories?
A. When I was invited to curate a programme for the museum, I wanted to screen something unknown. One thing that has always struck me about Mumbai is the large number of films we produce, and yet how little we are exposed to different kinds of cinema. So I decided to skip narrative fiction films and documentaries, and focus on different kinds of experimental films - films without stories, basically. These are films that have more to do with the senses — seeing, dreaming, things like that. Maybe these works are closer to painting, sculpture or poetry, so a museum is a good space to show them.

Ashim Ahluwalia