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<p> This commentary examines the role of silence in <i>Sumuini Khorang</i> (2022), a Kokborok-language short film directed by Jacob Tripura. In this film, silence transcends the mere absence of speech as a complex, multifaceted, paradoxical phenomenon. The protagonist’s mute existence, where speech, aspirations, and dreams dissolve into the banal, mirrors the lives of those crushed under the weight of poverty and non-happenings. This article explores the film’s sonic construction of silence,&#xa0;and its performative functions and politico-ideological implications. Through fragmented soundscapes, the film challenges the dominance of speech and probes the conditions and meanings of its absence. Locating the film within the emergent wave of Indigenous Kokborok cinema, the article reveals both silence’s presence and absence, offering ways of perceiving experiences that&#xa0;are otherwise unimaginable under the oppressive gaze of capitalist modernity.</p>

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The Unspeaking or the Refusal to Speak? Silence and the Indigene in New Wave Kokborok Cinema

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    2026年6月22日

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  • Aloy Deb Barma,
  • Sayan Dey

摘要

This commentary examines the role of silence in Sumuini Khorang (2022), a Kokborok-language short film directed by Jacob Tripura. In this film, silence transcends the mere absence of speech as a complex, multifaceted, paradoxical phenomenon. The protagonist’s mute existence, where speech, aspirations, and dreams dissolve into the banal, mirrors the lives of those crushed under the weight of poverty and non-happenings. This article explores the film’s sonic construction of silence, and its performative functions and politico-ideological implications. Through fragmented soundscapes, the film challenges the dominance of speech and probes the conditions and meanings of its absence. Locating the film within the emergent wave of Indigenous Kokborok cinema, the article reveals both silence’s presence and absence, offering ways of perceiving experiences that are otherwise unimaginable under the oppressive gaze of capitalist modernity.