Synopsis
Mirza/
Butler's
The Exception and the Rule, filmed in Pakistan and India, is a complex bricolage of formal experiments, overlapping narratives, fictional collaborators and performative quotations that explore
Bertolt Brecht's concept of Lehrstücke so as to ask the simple but urgent question: "What is it to make a political film?"
The Exception and the Rule supplements
Mirza/
Butler's ongoing agitprop project
The Museum of Non Participation, which provides a place for workshops, community publishing, street interventions, language classes and public seminars through its various manifestations in Karachi and London.
