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Discussion on Mobile Videos
May 2008
In writing, we think about what we have seen and how to write it.
But in making mobile videos, the view before us unravels itself frame by frame.
There is a relation between the practice of writing and the practice of making mobile videos.
One requires inner stillness, and the other requires us to still our surroundings.
I think with a mobile video, we try to find a stillness amidst the speed around us.
We try to find a moment of stillness in the world.
But in making mobile videos, the view before us unravels itself frame by frame.
There is a relation between the practice of writing and the practice of making mobile videos.
One requires inner stillness, and the other requires us to still our surroundings.
I think with a mobile video, we try to find a stillness amidst the speed around us.
We try to find a moment of stillness in the world.
- Love Anand
Read extracts from the transcripts of a discussion on videos shot by mobile phones here.
Mobile Sketches/Memory Card 01
April 2008
An ocean is always in movement
But still it waits for a storm
After which
What might change
What might get left behind
and
For how long it can be remembered –
This even the ocean doesn't know.
But still it waits for a storm
After which
What might change
What might get left behind
and
For how long it can be remembered –
This even the ocean doesn't know.
The videos in “Mobile Sketches/Memory Card 01” have been taken between 2006-2008, as part of our daily travels through the city. Every mobile video is accompanied by a log – the time during which it was taken, what it is that was sought to or has been registered, how the self re-created itself through posing before the camera, what escaped the frame, what about the familiar got disrupted, which inexpressible emotion it stirred, what thought it evoked. It is to one of these logs that we returned to weave together “Memory Card 01” (2008), so that in the weaving we retain with us our initial wonder of how that story entered our frame.
See Mobile Sketches/Memory Card 01 here.
Download mp4 here. (8 minutes, 20.4 mb)
Download a text introducing Mobile Sketches/Memory Card 01 here.
A version of Mobile Sketches/Memory Card 01 was presented at the Pocket Films Festival, 2008.