Nuclear Hallucinations

About the film

Nuclear Hallucinations is a film, which claims to be a documentary, and it is centered on the anti-nuclear struggle against the Kudankulam Atomic Power Project in South India. In a context where cases of sedition and waging of war against the state are filed against anti-nuclear protesters, the film attempts to question the totalitarian nature of pro- nuclear assertions through comic modes.

Director’s Note

Nuclear Hallucinations, which emerged out of my PhD at the University of Westminster, uses video, performance art and elements from street theatre to extend an invitation to approach the epistemological violence around the Indian nuclear project through comic modes and irony. By combining live performances with video at filming as well as screening stages, the project treats video work as an open process that transcends the limits of the screen. Nuclear Hallucinations places itself within the terrain of activist documentary films and links such documentary practices with the traditions of political theatre in India.

Director Biography

Fathima Nizaruddin is an alumnus of AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Milia Islamia, and Goldsmiths, University of London. Her film Talking Heads (Muslim Women) has been screened at various international film festivals.. Nuclear Hallucinations is part of her practice based PhD project at University of Westminster, London.