Footage Films, Or Narrating a Dataset

Aug. 27, 2024 - Dec. 20, 2024
Center For Experimental Ethnography, UPENN

with Visiting Scholars CAMP
(Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran)

We begin this fall semester's film class with a moratorium on audio-video capture.
100 days without your own images:)

We will attempt instead, a collectively - authored set of video essays that engage with material that we are deeply enmeshed in, while questioning all protocols of filming, editing and screening.

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Feb. 20, 2025 - July 20, 2025
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Opening soon, CAMP solo in NYC.

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Feb. 2, 2025
CAMP Rooftop

Sunday, 7:00 pm
100 mins
Pandemic shorts by Panahi, Poitras, Apichatpong, Weiwei, and others.

A Terrible Beauty
Jan. 25, 2025
CAMP Studio

by Iram Ghufran
50 mins, 2023
7:00 pm

Introduction and post-screening discussion with Iram Ghufran.
A science-fiction fable set in the "miracle city" of Yiwu, in one of the world's largest wholesale markets for small commodities.

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Shaina A gave a talk at the film studies conference at EFLU, Hyderabad titled Film After Video, Notes from CAMP.
Youth (Spring)
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Jan. 4, 2025
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We begin the year with
GRAND TOUR
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in memorium, Tejas Pande.

Geographies of Belonging
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Uniondocs.org

Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar
Streaming on Union Docs.

Bombay Tilts Down
Nov. 30, 2024 - April 24, 2025
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane

Asia Pacific Triennial

Machine Visions
Nov. 21, 2024
Columbia University, New York

On AI by CAMP

From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf
Nov. 14, 2024
Public Trust, Philadelphia

Screening and conversation in collaboration with University of Pennsylvania’s Cinema & Media Studies department and CARG. At old Slought/ new Public Trust.

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