Camera Consciousness: Mirroring the Other

A reflection on the camera as a consciousness device, and the ways in which it informs a cross-platform, inter-disciplinary, expanded cinema practice. Ethnographic by nature, cinematographic in intent, the practice entails an intense engagement with the Other seeking to transform both as also the rasik/audience. In this talk, I ask if camera as a microscope can access visions and realities beyond the scope of everyday human perception; if it can serve to educate the senses via a re-orientation of desire; if it can aid in enquiring deeply into the idea-l of being human inclusive of the sea, mountain, tree, rain, sun and moon. The process, drawing upon embedded Indian/Asian contexts of belief, thought, practice and philosophy aspires to build a bridge between the ancient and the emergent. The practice seeks to find ways to re-invent itself in the ever-evolving digital interface, working through overlapping boundaries of fiction/reality, image/ text, silence/ sound and music in the realm of a forever fellowship with practitioners/sensibilities across the Metropolis and the Forest.

When: Thursday September 12, 2019 | 4 – 5 pm
Where: MOA Room 213
Speakers: Rajula Shah, poet, visual artist, filmmaker from India

PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE UBC INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORIES RESEARCH CLUSTER AND THE CENTRE FOR INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA RESEARCH.