Place for Landing 

A landscape all of mirrors where great big shadows pass over the patchwork below. The camera shifts its focus. A child appears, disappears, a duck moves in. The surveying mirror either implodes or explodes into space. Its mottled hallway glass both indicates and becomes a Place for Landing. After a series of clever misdirections by the mirror, all is redeemed by a fragment of song in this unsettling bedtime story.—S.K.

Shambhavi Kaul's films include Scene 32 (09), Place for Landing (10) and 21 Chitrakoot (12).