Dissolutions

Cinmaton XXV... Reel 25 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

Motriz A submerged watch lost for years in waters from a watermill had stopped to work, to find it brings back its driving forces.

Ritu Goes Online In 2016, Ritu Kaushik, a homemaker from the fringes of New Delhi, started selling bags on Flipkart under her brand name Ritupal Collection.Born and raised in a small village in Sonipat (Haryana), Ritu had to discontinue her studies at the age of 16. A year later, she was married off under familial pressure. Newlywed Ritu began cattle rearing and farming and invested all her time in her family. As her children grew up, she felt a need to create an identity for herself. She waited 15 years to finish her education. Ritu single-mindedly negotiated the patriarchal mind-sets of those around her in order to set up her own business.

Oh Butterfly, What Do Yo... The work of taxonomists hides more secrets than can be perceived.

Tree Time Tree Time imagines a relationship between nature and technology unmediated by human presence. The video was shot in the Amazon rainforest with a drone enacting a disembodied point of view that floats through the densely compressed forest canopy, taking off, hovering above the ground, and occasionally returning to it. The work’s title is informed by a series of interviews with a dendrochronologist who studies methods of tracking climate change by ‘reading’ the annual tree rings in the Amazon rainforest –ecological recordings reveal a hidden dimension of narrative time within nature itself.

The Beekeeper This is the story of a beekeeper and his son and their memories in the Iranian mountains… Meanwhile war looms in neighboring Syria.

uu Kanda (Move)... We are Nivi Savi, rain people, Mixtecos; a people that disperses like the clouds and every year returns to earth to continue to flourish the memory of their ancestors.

The Diam Diam Era Too The story continues with Ah Kun, Osman and Shamugam forming a political party C.M.I to contest in the 1988 General Election.

CounterPlay An Australian national, wrongly accused of being a drug dealer in Manila, is about to spend the rest of his life in jail. An Australian corporate intelligence specialist is hired to bring him home while the corrupt police colonel tracks him down.

Longer Nights As nights grow longer in the cold winter, a girl is inclined to ponder her relationship with the sky.