Cinema Strikes!
A three part miniseries adaptation of Ashish Rajadhyaksha’s book by the same name on the history of cinema and censorship in India. This series incorporated the use of AI to mimic several historical and contemporary figures.
EPISODE 1
The Cinema’s Expanded Afterlife
Episode 1 tells a longer cinematic history of a technological and political transformation. The age of film was born more or less after the First World War, signalling a new age of mass democracy. Ever since then, filmmakers have been in the line of fire as the cinema, standing in for a new public domain, has seen battles take place on the street, in courtrooms, and of course in movie theatres.
EPISODE 2
A Satyajit Ray Plastic Bangle
Episode 2 explores the consequences of a cinema that has turned increasingly elusive to regulation. With lightweight equipment for both making and showing films allowing filmmaking an unprecedented mobility, new possibilities emerged along with new challenges for regulatory authority.
EPISODE 3
A Hacker Cinema
The third and final episode looks at the recent histories of censorship, alongside the morphing of the moving image into streaming media, emphasising circulation, using memes, encouraging a new interactivity with its spectators, with significant aesthetic consequences on both filmmaking and the self-definition of a filmmaker.