with Bombay Tilts Down (2022) and A Photogenic Line, (2019) as part of Photo 24, Melbourne.
In this pair of large-scale works, CAMP explore two sides of their practice; one that produces experimental film and video, often with unusual equipment and angles of participation, and another that creates and animates archives of moving images, documents and photography.
The two works are united by their re-spatialisation of places and history and by becoming temporal structures of what could be or could have been. Both suggest, in a reworked cinematic tradition, that seeing is not passive and can reassemble concrete realities.
Bombay Tilts Down (2022, 13 mins, 6+1 screens) was filmed with a 4K CCTV camera from a single point on a 36-floor building in central Mumbai, while being watched by people in the city below.
A Photogenic Line, (2017, cutout photographic montage) assembles photographs from the archive of The Hindu, a left-leaning Indian national newspaper, in a sequence where “one photograph calls the next'', via a series of rules. In this allusion to a filmic edit, we walk through small and big historical events with their original captions, now inside a non-narrative, unstable and eerie political assemblage.
featuring
The Neighbour Before the House
Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar
الجار قبل الدار
Shaina A speaks about CAMP's past-present-future project and indiancine.ma at CSMVS in conjuction with A Cinematic Imagination: Josef Wirsching & the Bombay Talkies.
Two films by CAMP
Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar (The Neighbour before the House)
From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf
in
The Unfaithful Octopus
at
MAIIAM Contemporary
Low-End Therapy
By Swadesi crew
Kaali Duniya (Bamboy/Tushar Adhav) with guest MC's Kranti Naari, Pratika, MC Mawali, Khabardar Revolt.
BassBrahma and RaakShas Sound
Equality on the dance floor.
7-channel environment. 13 mins, on loop with two alternating soundtracks
A vertical landscape movie in facets. Filmed remotely by one CCTV camera from a single-point location atop a 35-floor building on E. Moses Road during the pandemic.
A tour of the work with CAMP in three acts.
12 January 7 pm, ft. Bamboy
13 January 6 pm
14 January 7:30 pm
20 January 7 pm
CAMP participated in the conference: Modulating Realities at Sarai, Delhi.
What Can Happen to Paradigms of Control. A keynote lecture by Forensic Architecture Guest Professors Shaina A & Ashok S. At Goldsmiths, University of London.
with Khorshed and Kekoo Gandhy
in CheMoulding Part II - FUTURING.
60 years of Chemould Gallery