2026 / 37' / English, Hindi / India
✦ Shorts
An experimental documentary short exploring how our sense of self is reshaped through conversations with machines. Through the lived experience of people in India speaking to AI, the film captures a fragile moment in which intimacy, care, and vulnerability are quietly shifting away from human bonds and towards artificial companionship.
What happens when we train a machine to understand us better than we understand ourselves? In a culture saturated with information but disconnected from feeling, the documentary foregrounds the question: Who are we becoming? What are we looking for?
Director(s) : Shivam Rastogi
Producer(s) : Shabani Hassanwalia (The Third Eye)
Cinematographer(s) : Shivam Rastogi
Writer(s) : Shivam Rastogi, Santana Issar
Editor(s) : Shivam Rastogi
Music : Rohit Gupta, Fursat FM
Sound : Shivam Rastogi, Abhishek Mathur, Anahad Narain
Shivam is a documentary filmmaker and photographer whose work revolves around the archives of the everyday, cities, and how we navigate the many worlds we inhabit - inner and outer. He works as a video producer, art commissioner, and mentor at The Third Eye, where he develops videos, films, and photo essays for the feminist think tank.
