Shambhavi Kaul is an experimental filmmaker whose projects speculate on the possibilities for cinematic storytelling to build worlds. Her films make temporal and spatial demarcations porous by reorganizing cinematic space and layering historical, mythical, geological, ecological and cultural timescales. Eventually, audiences consider their own time and space in relation to survival, the environment and these filmic worlds. She has exhibited her work worldwide at film festivals such as the Toronto International Film Festival, the Berlinale, the New York, Rotterdam, Edinburgh, and London Film Festivals and Experimenta Bangalore among others. She has presented her work at museums including the Museum of Modern Art, New York and Tate, London. She has had two solo gallery shows at Jhaveri Contemporary in Mumbai. She was born in Jodhpur India, and lives in the United States where she is a professor at Duke University.