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I started shooting not long after my thirteenth birthday, and what began as a test, turned into a project that would take 9-10 months of on-and-off shooting to complete. I shot over 45,000 stills including reshoots, not all of which made the final cut, and eventually decided that I had most of the footage I had set out to get for my film. Shot as a series of stills on a Sony A230. Tilt-Shift effect applied in AE. Edited in FCP. The music is by the…
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Near Manek Chowk, in the old city of Ahmedabad an engraver transforms squares of non ferrous metals into auspicious objects known as 'Yantra'. http://msspfollen.blogspot.com/2010/03/divine-metal.html
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At the Folk Arts Festival and Fair in Sonargaon, Bangladesh there was a family, three generations of 'Sholapith' craftworkers, making moving toys, ornaments and flowers from shola (Aeschynomene Aspera, a herbaceous plant which grows in marshland). Using few tools, other than two very sharp knifes, a range of skillful and carefully made cuts, combined with a knowledge of and sensitivity to the material resulted in the flowers 'appearing'. There was…
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In a small 'hamlet' near Dhaka men cast scrap brass into an open shallow mold to make a flat circular ingot. Together they then stretch up to 8 of the ingots at a time into thin sheets, which are then formed into temple gongs, ritual dishes or engraved trays for the home & tourist markets. The rhythm of the work is musical, The man controlling the fire moves the plates through the stack to ensure that they are all stretched evenly. They work together…
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A workshop in the Old City of Ahmedabad in Gujarat making silver and gold metal leaf for use in temples, medicines and on sweets. 70 small gold rectangles weighing a total of 10g, each one measuring 1.2cm x 2.5cm, are hammered and stretched to make finished sheets 15cm x 12.5cm. The metal is sandwiched between sheets of fine 'medical' paper and held in a leather wallet. The hammer has two faces one for stretching the metal quickly, the other for smoothing…
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