Cinema 1 : Plastic Faeces (2009) Intransit series
Whilst traditional oral storytelling, and the Greek stage are often cited as the birthplace of Cinema, the train carriage window is cited as the first Cinematic Screen. Travelling around India I began capturing Anthropological recordings. I wanted to gather footage which showed India as it is . Despite simply pointing the camera and shooting to try and capture everything as it was, there was naturally a Bias of my British Indianess of where I wandered and Journeyed. Post recording, I though about what I had seen, and made notes of thoughts and ideas. On returning to Bristol, U.K, I began sorting and editing the recordings, trying to weave a narrative that corresponded across continents. For this footage I mixed two recordings, A train Journey out of Delhi, and a bus Journey to Dharamsala,
In Plastic faeces I wanted explore the impact and scale of Plastic usage and pollution, tracing the journey of utilitarian plastic from an economic centre to its distribution of waste at its larger circumference.On first glance, the screen reveals clusters of flowers, which on closer inspection, reveal themsleves as shrapnels of plastic waste. I considered the impact and scale that imported technology can have on transforming a country.
The first man-made plastic was created by Alexander Parkes who publicly demonstrated it at the 1862 Great International Exhibition in London (1851 Great Exhibition showcased the Koh-i-noor diamond). Labelled Parkesine, it was a organic material derived from cellouse, and became flexible when heated, and solid when cooled. Celluloid is a derivatve of cellouse and became the first flexible form of photographic film used in photography and motion pictures.
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In Plastic faeces I wanted explore the impact and scale of Plastic usage and pollution, tracing the journey of utilitarian plastic from an economic centre to its distribution of waste at its larger circumference.On first glance, the screen reveals clusters of flowers, which on closer inspection, reveal themsleves as shrapnels of plastic waste. I considered the impact and scale that imported technology can have on transforming a country.
The first man-made plastic was created by Alexander Parkes who publicly demonstrated it at the 1862 Great International Exhibition in London (1851 Great Exhibition showcased the Koh-i-noor diamond). Labelled Parkesine, it was a organic material derived from cellouse, and became flexible when heated, and solid when cooled. Celluloid is a derivatve of cellouse and became the first flexible form of photographic film used in photography and motion pictures.
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