Join us for a one-of-a-kind, people-powered cinema experience.
Meet Sita—space-larva, seed, sentient forest, cyborg goddess, biohacker, shaman, and daughter of the earth—who returns in a time of upheaval to reimagine the stories that shape how we see and move through the world.
This live performance by artist Anuj Vaidya re-stories the South Asian epic Ramayana through the voice of its female protagonist, transforming it into eco-tales at the edge of the sixth extinction. Rather than watching a screen, audiences gather in a circle and become part of the film—passing images and objects hand-to-hand, experiencing a live soundtrack, and taking part in a guided visualization to co-create the story through imagination.
Blending mythology, ecology, and storytelling, this intimate and participatory experience invites you into a shared act of connection, creativity, and discovery. Presented as part of I-House Davis’ Roots & Routes series, exploring diaspora, identity, and belonging.
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About Anuj Vaidya:
Anuj Vaidya is a media maker, curator, and educator, whose praxis engages a diverse range of forms and strategies that include theater and performance, multi-media installation and story-telling, social practice, curatorial practice, arts education, and artivism.
Deeply invested in collaboration, Anuj seeks to break down the divide between artist and audience by engaging them not only as content consumers but also as co-creators through participatory processes. His work pays due attention to the material, social, and intellectual impacts of our storytelling and media technologies, reminding us that we must be attentive to both the footprint and the brain-print of the stories we tell.
Anuj is also co-founder of YoloSol (a collective of artivists guided by Wintun culture-bearer Diana Almendariz), the Hypha Collective (a collective of thinkers and makers who use fungus and fermentation as inspiration for experiments in collective place-making), and Larval Rock Stars (a multi-media collaboration with artist/scholar Praba Pilar that imagines a slow-tech/lo-tech future).
