Video Arts
These videos are part of larger installations within Project Cinema City. In the exhibition format the videos get layered with other materiality and achieved a 3-d presence. Yet they are quite autonomous as single channel videos.
Of Panorama, 10 mins, Silent
Animation video by Archana Hande.
The cityscape changes by the day and so are the fantasies of the citizens. In the collective memory, images of the cityscape that have been lost forever and the city of fantasy that always remains just outside one’s reach jumble up to become a series of dream-like lines, textures and colours.
Of Panorama, the animation film comprises of 15000 water colour paintings on the history of urbanization and development. The film portrays the city as a natural port and traces its changes through the period of aggressive urbanization and the mayhem of real estate speculation of the 19th and the 20th century and then make a speculation for the 21st century. The water colour paintings refer to the convention of landscape painting as well as cinematic framing of cityscapes.
Women viewing Cinema, 12 mins
found footage / material video.
Graphics by Simran Dhaliwal
Motion graphics by Abeer Gupta.
This video is part of an installation on cinema’s journey from Studio to Theatres.
In this video women spectators from diverse social background and across age groups narrate their corporeal relationship with cinema. They talk about the sensorial experience of viewing cinema in large magnification, which also includes the logistic aspects of visiting the theatre, architectural and infrastructural features of the theatre, the sociality of public place activities, issues of urban development and so on.
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ID Cards, 3.15 min
The film industries in India are neither governed by the norms of manufacturing industry or service industry nor are they considered as a full fledged informal sector. The aspect of intense desire to be inside the glamour world of cinema, on part of the migrant aspirants, makes this enterprise unique. Hence its ways to manage its labour force are also quite unprecedented. The labour unions, in this case, function more as gatekeepers to keep the aspirants at bay than as protectors of rights.
This video is edited by Mamta Murthy and Rikhav Desai. It is part of the installation The Western Suburb.
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