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This work has emerged as part of an ongoing doctoral research in artistic practice that aims to mobilize film practice to foreground subaltern experiences of the Bengal Famine of 1943. Mrinal Sen's Akaler Sandhaney is one of the most important films on the famine and the video work Where we rats lurk can be seen as a critical intervention in Sen's film. The video work is animated by the question - what are the limits of self-reflexivity in Mrinal Sen’s Akaler Sandhaney and can they be unsettled without undermining their critical potential in filmmaking practices?