Actor Container

2020, 21 minutes

Saaj wakes up in Chandni's car and tries to retrace his steps from a surreal dream.

Two Queens is delighted to announce the presentation of a newly-commissioned film by Leeds based artist Karanjit Panesar: Actor, Container. The work comes out of an ongoing investigation into the relationship between insides and outsides, a fascination with the idea of 'behind-the-scenes', and what these things can tell us about truth, agency and authenticity. The film uses a narrative structure called a 'strange loop'; a device that involves multiple levels of reality that are nested inside each other. Strange loops are often found in stories of time travel and the supernatural, and usually result in paradoxes and general confusion. Actor, Container follows characters Saaj and Chandni, who are pulled between these kinds of levels, only to wind up back where they started. It is a recurring dream in tandem.

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