A Terrible Beauty

Iram Ghufran / Long Documentaries / India / ENGLISH, MANDARIN / 50 min 45 sec / 2024

6th March 2025 | 3:00 PM | C. D. Deshmukh Auditorium

A Terrible Beauty tells a speculative tale of time travellers, Lucy and Blue as they journey through the mysterious “Miracle City” – an intriguing place populated with eternal goods, forever flowers and perpetual persons. The film speaks of a post human present/future and invites the audience to revisit questions around technology, ethics, mortality and what it means to be human in our times. A Terrible Beauty unfolds within the realm of anthropomorphic objects, such as dolls, mannequins, and androids, and explores the ambivalent state of dread and excitement through which humans encounter technology.

An experimental endeavour, the film seeks to position documentary film in an immanent future, aiming to explore the notion of being human in a complex multispecies world. A Terrible Beauty blends documentary observation with science fiction and invites the audience to revisit questions around technology, ethics, mortality and what it means to be human in our times.