When the Mumbai Art Room curator Nida Ghouse watched Karim Aïnouz and Marcelo Gomes’ Brazilian film, I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You, and later came across the Palestine-based artist Yazan Khalili’s On Love And Other Landscapes — a film made in the format of a book — she felt a strong relation between both works. “Both are narratives of love and longing in which the landscape is a major character in the story,” says Ghouse, who along with her co-curator Mohamed Beshir a.k.a Gouda, has selected three experimental films including this one to be screened in a week-long film programme titled ‘A supplementary country called cinema’ at the Colaba venue, starting today.

Excerpts from Yazan Khalili’s book