“Do We Listen, When We See?” is a short film responding to the ongoing crisis in Manipur. It questions how attention, seeing and listening are unevenly distributed. Instead of an informative narrative, the film experiments with negligence as a sensory experience, created through framing of the visuals and audio.

The film is played in two frames split with a gap, showing the parallel realities within a shared screen. One frame carries the fragments of everyday urban life, while the other shows the violence, displacement and grief. This duality acts as a code to show how events are present but marginalised. Sound became the second code, as Manipuri folk music played in the background against western dialogues keeping eastern voices unheard and recorded only as text. Based on Tina Campt's concept of "listening to images" and John Berger's ideas about selective vision, the film presents seeing as an active choice rather than a passive act. Movements, visual repetition, and the music serve as cultural memory holders that disrupt everyday images. Through these approaches, the film invites viewers to consider how collective responsibility is shaped by silence, distance, and how crises continue to exist in the gaps we choose not to centre.