Tiny Patch of Sky (2008)

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Tiny Patch of Sky is a live 16mm-based video feedback loop of a treelined skyline at Prospect Park, NYC, that will soon be imposed on by a 23-storey luxury apartment complex presently under contstruction. The 16mm based footage of the skyline is picked up by a video camera and superimposed on to the film image creating a meditative experience of the skyline. If film, as Benjamin claims "extends our comprehension of the necessities which rule our lives by focusing on hidden details," Tiny Patch of Sky seeks to amplify this experience and become what cybernetician Gregory Bateson terms "a difference that makes a difference."

SCREENINGS/PERFORMANCES INCLUDE:
- Liminal Space, F(r)iction Project, Brooklyn, 2010
- Experimenta, Bangalore - India, 2009
- Simply Screen: Inbetweeners of Asia, The Transart Institute, Berlin, 2009
- Screengrab Exhibition, James Cook University, 2009
- ArtHouse Film and Video Festival, 2009
- Investigations of Place, Jersey City Museum, 2009
- VideoChannel 2009
- Mixed Messages: The New School 2007

UPCOMING

§ The first installment of Techniques of the Observer, an experimental screening series I'm curating, will play at Arthouse Mocha, New Delhi on 16 January, 2010.

§ Foto Cache will be featured in the 23. Stuttgart Filmwinter between 21–24 January, 2010

§ The Liminal Space exhibition put together by the folks at F(r)iction Project is opening on January 22, 2010 at THE LAY-UP in Brooklyn, NY. BOMBAY_RGB is part of the exhibition, so do stop by if you're in the neighborhood.

§ Utsav Mela is playing at the Oxford Film Festival on February 7, 2010.