Brad Butler
2021
The Space Between
Brad Butler, Noor Afshan Mirza
"The film image is constantly fluctuating between object-representation and surface abstraction. Repetition does not bring clarity nor is it meant to. No attempt is made to deny either the subjectivity of film or its representational mode; rather the viewer works through and against the film with the filmmakers; so to speak." - Karen Mirza and Brad Butler
The Space Between
The Exception and the Rule
Brad Butler, Noor Afshan Mirza
Shot primarily in Karachi, The Exception and the Rule employs a variety of strategies in negotiating consciously political themes. Avoiding traditional documentary modes, the film frames everyday activities within a period of civil unrest, incorporating performances to camera, public interventions and observation. This complex work supplements Mirza/Butler's Artangel project 'The Museum of Non Participation'.
The Exception and the Rule
The Unreliable Narrator
Brad Butler, Noor Afshan Mirza
In Mumbai, terrorists play into the hands of Bollywood filmmakers rushing to register epic film titles. As narrators continue to hijack rhetoric of cultural and political discourse to rupture, an absurd ventriloquist act is exposed.
The Unreliable Narrator