It was 14th November, 2015, a bright winter day. My father’s skull cracked open loudly, and his brain poured out- a viscous membrane- before being swallowed by the funeral pyre. The wind gently steered the heat towards me singeing the hair on my shin. I took a step back and looked harder at his evaporatingContinue reading “Images and Shadows of my father”
Tag Archives: film
Nihilist Picnic
Time- 3:53 minutes A picnic at the digital landscape.
Landscape Impressions
A meditation on the digital landscape.
Visions from a Valley
Impressionist images of a landscape emerge from the ruins rendered by codec hacking.
Vast Possibilities
An experimental music video created to explore the vast possibilities of material play through glitching of the digital image.
Meditations on Noise
Time- 1 minute 39 seconds. A study of noise that’s underneath digital data. Can the noise be usedto create poetic experiences?
A Song for Spring
Time- 1 minute 9 seconds. The video was rendered with ffglitch to blur slow moving pixels, andthen cellular automata was pushed on to the file in ffmpeg.Afterwards the videos were composited together in Premiere Pro. Thesound for the video was created by exporting the video as raw data onto Audacity and then exported as AAC.Continue reading “A Song for Spring”
Triptych
Time- 1 minute. An afternoon outing with friends. Part of a series on landscape studywhere I push the digital data to render an impressionist image.
Angry Crowd
Time- 1 minute 10 seconds A short video that explores the tension of a crowd that took to the streets toprotest against CAA in December 2019. The characters extinguish within theimage into a more lighter hue just as the anger that brimmed within the middleclass Assamese populace eventually dissipated, and culminated with the re-election ofContinue reading “Angry Crowd”
Watermelon Season
Time- 2 minutes 58 seconds. A portrait of my family sharing an afternoon over watermelons.