Director’s Note from Renu Savant, codirector of the video essay Brave Revolutionary Redubbed: 

In a year, undefined, I shot an image. It was a peculiar act; I was shooting an activity that was supposed to be “invisible” to the law. By what process did it become invisible to the “big eye” when everyone could see it? And what was my role in shooting this image? Was my narrative to align with the law? Who were the characters in this narrative? In a search for the meaning of justice, regulation, and punishment, I decided the only way was to look into depths like those in water and not in directions bound by land. 

Made for the Yokohama Triennale, this is a video deliberation on the role of the filmmaker and the subject within the constellations of justice and power. It is a self-reflexive document made in the context of the irregular fishing practices in western coastal India, the migrant workers in this field, and the ecosystem of power. The video refers to a nineteenth-century print by the artist, J. J. Grandville, Crime and Expiation. Radiating from a single image, the video disentangles how activities are “masked” locally by the perpetrators using power networks. Curious to find the meaning of justice in this constellation, the camera “shoots”—but can it be innocent?