A Season of Footage and Films, Part 6. The Desert of the Real: Footage from Dubai

Jan. 30, 2011 - Jan. 31, 2011

Sunday January 30 6:30 pm
CAMP Roof


Sebastian Lütgert shows footage from a future film about capitalism, set in Dubai.
2008-2010
111 mins.
Shot on Canon 5D Mark II

"Today, the global economy presents itself as a form of reality that is entirely inaccessible to imagination, since its only manner of being concrete is abstraction. The film in question is not concerned with fata morganas, or "castles built on sand". It is set in an imaginary place where the abstract form that is capital has been poured into concrete shapes, where the pyramid scheme of profit and debt has left its debris in the form of actual pyramids, and where the sudden appearance of things that were believed to be unimaginable cannot be reduced to a purely optical phenomenon."

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A Season of Footage and Films


CAMP presents
Saturday or Sunday evening screenings through winter, exploring footage both within and outside the usual capsule of "the film". An experience that could be similar to watching films, or at other times harder to digest, or slower to release, closer to the moment of shooting, less censorious, and less fearful of finitude. Another life, another world of viewing and listening experiences is always possible.



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Broken Cameras
April 4, 2024 - May 5, 2024
Salt Beyoğlu, Online

featuring
The Neighbour Before the House
Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar
الجار قبل الدار

March 30, 2024 Re-Visioning Indian Cinema

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.
What the Cameras Saw and Remembered
March 16, 2024 - March 17, 2024
Capitol Cinema, Melbourne

Two films by CAMP
Al Jaar Qabla Al Daar (The Neighbour before the House)
From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf

Captial Circus (2009)
March 9, 2024 - July 15, 2024
Chiang Mai

in
The Unfaithful Octopus
at
MAIIAM Contemporary

To See is To Change
March 1, 2024 - April 27, 2024
RMIT Design Hub Gallery, Melbourne

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.

Closing Party! BOMBAY TILTS DOWN
Jan. 21, 2024 - Jan. 21, 2024
Sassoon Docks, Mumbai

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.

READING LISTENING SEEING Bombay Tilts Down
Jan. 12, 2024 - Jan. 20, 2024
Sassoon Docks, Mumbai

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

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.

Dec. 15, 2023 at Networks of Sonic Thinking, Sarai.

CAMP participated in the conference: Modulating Realities at Sarai, Delhi.
Nov. 22, 2023 A Road, Twelve Water Systems, Sixty Thousand Movies...

What Can Happen to Paradigms of Control. A keynote lecture by Forensic Architecture Guest Professors Shaina A & Ashok S. At Goldsmiths, University of London.
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