The Game of Shifting Mirrors

How do the vicissitudes of contemporary notions of nationhood alter our relationship with cultural patrimony Its a question obliquely suggested by Amit Duttas latest film As a camera explores the architecture of a museum we hear a description of a painting we never see Eventually we leave the building behind and examine the remains of a temple explored to weather and war Sensual and rigourous The Game of Shifting Mirrors reaffirms Duttas place as Indias most accomplished experimental filmmaker Michael Sicinski