Not a Rumor

Short Film (2025)

Short film (5:54) 

Materials: Archival media, Bollywood samples, TV debate footage, iPhone footage, family audio, found video

Dimensions: Variable.

A non-linear ritual confronting racialized erasure, rumor, and Afro–Asian memory.

Sparked by the killing of 22-year-old Zimbabwean student Leeroy Ziweya in India, this short film weaves rumor, testimony, and digital fragments into a counter-archive of Afro–Asian erasure. His death—framed as isolated—reveals how the African body remains hypervisible yet easily erased within postcolonial systems shaped by caste, colorism, and colonial discipline.

Through fractured montage and circulating memory—WhatsApp chains, family stories, TV debates—the film rebuilds a record that refuses disappearance, extending the archive first sparked by my News Minute reporting.

A counter-archive.
A refusal of erasure.
A rumor becoming history.