Bombay Tilts Down in Mumbai!
Jan. 12, 2024 - Jan. 21, 2024
Sassoon Docks, Mumbai
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.
Six long takes that begin in unstable skies and at sea, and descend “into the ordinary” via a vertical landscape filled with changing city landmarks, persistent settlements, details without end...
Each tilt downwards is composed of dozens of repeated shots that show and hide themselves. They become a fluid movement across categories, structures and lines made on land, an interest of CAMP for many years. The stacked and layered city in Parel and Worli (old Bombay tidal islands, and later forming the working-class heart of the city) is suggestive of new subject and object formations.
When people appear in the images, many seem to be aware of this eye in the sky. Everyone is or can be an actor, in diagonal pacts between people and camera. The potential of such new relations drives this work, part of long-term investigations at CAMP that include histories and futures of documentary and moving images, housing, infrastructure, and pleasure.
The soundtracks, haunted by sirens and poets are by BamBoy (Tushar Adhav) who grew up in Lalbaug, Parel.
- CAMP
Ashok Sukumaran Jan Gerber Rohan Chavan Shaina Anand Simpreet Singh Zinnia Ambapardiwala
With residents of Achanak Nagar, Maya Nagar, Siddharth Nagar, Jijamata Nagar, Mariamma Nagar, Ambedkar Wadi, Shreeram Mills, Lotus Colony, Madraswadi, Markandeshwar Nagar and BDD Chawls, Worli.
Ashok Salve, Babita Shettigar, DJ Mith, Farooq Shaikh, Haneefabi, Ibarat Shaikh, Kerabai Patil, Manisha Jadhav, Mohamadali Chaudhary, Mumtaz Ali, Nirupa Bhangar, Prabhakar Parab, Praveen Yerunkar, Shahida Shaikh, Rajendar Padave, Rajesh Singh, Salman Shaikh, Sangeeta Shetye, Savita Bansude, Sunaina Mane, Sunil Bhosale, Sunny Nair, Tarabai Chalke, Tejesh Sharma, Tukaram Sawant.
And K.A Abbas, Amar Shaikh Kala Pathak, Anna Bhau Sathe, Avahan Natya Manch, Begum Akhtar, Dhondutai Kulkarni, Narayan Surve, Neela Bhagwat, Sambhaji Bhagat, Vilas Ghogre. Mastered by Venkatesh Iyer.
CARPENTRY & WELDING Sarif Shaikh with Muslem Malik, Shehzada Shaikh, Inzamul Huq, Nizamuddin Shaikh, Mohammed Awais. Mohammed Shakib
THANK YOU Pravin Nerunkar, Shireen Gandhy, Adarsh Jatia. Neela Bhagwat, Sambhaji Bhagat, Anand Patwardhan, Monteiro-Jayasankar, Shiva Thorat, Vasudev Harekar, Swapnil Kamble, Foundation for Arts Initiatives, Nam June Paik Art Center, Kochi Muziris Biennale.
PRESENTED BY Experimenter Gallery in collaboration with Start India Foundation. Supported by the Mumbai Port Authority.
