Film Project 2 - Untitled

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Medium: Video - 32 secs.

I have often found my body gestures and movements to defy the pace of my thoughts. I’m fascinated and surprised when my body expresses itself independently in these instances. I’ve observed my actions to be faster than my words can express and my body often seems to have a mind of it’s own.

In this particular video I’ve accentuated the gestures of my body in juxtaposition with its momentum. I’m interested in the situations when the body follows the mind and the reverse process. I’ve deliberately kept this video silent to suggest the sound through movement.

(Disclaimer: A song, Intro of Bonobo's Animal Magic, has been added at the moment to the project to increase entertainment value. ;)

Film Project - Last Sound Before Sleep

I’ve been practicing photography and meditation simultaneously for the past few years. On arriving in Pont Aven from the congested metropolitan city of Mumbai I found myself being unable to sleep at night due to an accentuated soundscape from within my body. I was overwhelmed by the beating of my own heart and magnified breath. I was surprised by the simplicity of this primal act that is elemental to the human life force but is only noticed in moments of silence. A soundscape I was only able to pay attention to while in meditation, when silence is deliberately sought out.  
While meditation has been an inward self-exploration, my photographic practice has always included the external, the human form. I wanted to unite both these past explorations with my self-reflective observations in Pont-Aven, via a new medium. For this particular project I’ve stepped away from my photographic practice and opted for video in order to bypass the limitations of still images.