ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the narrative of violence and protest that emanate from Manipur in light of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958. It argues that violence is a repetition of communicative acts which makes it performative as Judith Butler calls it, a 'stylized repetition of acts'. The chapter discusses the repetition of this communicative act of the collated visuals, and how 'visuals create and reproduce images of violence that perpetuate dominance'. It provides a legitimate account through his lens of immense hardships and violence that the people had to undergo, and also provided clues to the chronology of events that led to the climax of protest by the group of ladies before Kangla Fort. The director argues that as more and more violations happen under the Act the resistance gets much stronger. Stories of violence that are reported emanate from the innumerable cases of excesses that were committed under the garb of the law.
