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Bengali-American Ph.D. student Choton brings his African American boyfriend Raheem to his family home in Kolkata to film a queer-archiving project about queer dating in India. The visit draws family and other subjects into questions of intimacy, memory and translation.
Bulbul opens with a lecture and demonstrations about how sand moves, until she coughs and her son Misha interrupts to restage her apparent death. Their ensuing exchange shifts among mother and son, performer and director, and teacher and student as they explore grief, scientific inquiry, and the fear of losing one another.
Bengali-American Ph.D. student Choton brings his African American boyfriend Raheem to his family home in Kolkata to film a queer-archiving project about queer dating in India. The visit draws family and other subjects into questions of intimacy, memory and translation.
Bulbul opens with a lecture and demonstrations about how sand moves, until she coughs and her son Misha interrupts to restage her apparent death. Their ensuing exchange shifts among mother and son, performer and director, and teacher and student as they explore grief, scientific inquiry, and the fear of losing one another.