first draft gathering
March 22, 2025
CAMP studio
"film objects" A gathering organised by the Delhi based artist group first draft.
Saturday from 5 pm.
Participants bring a film scene where a film object has powers.
Join us at CAMP’s studio to assemble objects in cinema: a clock, a cyclone, a train, a minaret or a tune; amid others of varying scales, material and imagination, that possess character, intensity or agency comparable to the story's protagonists. Objects that the protagonists desire, fear, care for, sing songs about, inhabit or come out of, are conditioned by, etc. In other words, elements of their environment. The gathering will use film clips of such objects as a meeting point.
Participants are encouraged to bring a scene/excerpt from a film (1 to 3 mins) that focuses on such an object and that resonates with them (with a possibility of bringing a physical object too). We will replace the logic of ’information-cut-information-’ with object-cut-object— to understand the ways in which film interrupts and reveals something of such object and their networks , beyond their everyday presence, representation, or form, instead imbuing the power to narrate a story.
If you are interested to join or want to know more, please rsvp at studio.camp/contact. Early responders will be able to access the database of indiancine.ma.
