How the Pandemic Distorted Time
Who is the practitioner?
Sindha Agar is a professional media practitioner who creates Emmy nominated films through use of digital visual content and her bright story telling. Her unique style of film provides insight to taboo topics such as mental health, birth control and uses imagery to tell her story.
Briefly describe the content of the video.
The video speaks about the idea of gatherings and parties in a past tense. Since Covid-19 restrictions and the inability to gather, Sindha captures the idea of parties as a distant memory. As her film progresses she adapts her story into the comparison of time into space and into colour. She debates the structure of time and how humans of capable of deciphering what time actually is. Sindha is the participant in her own film, telling her story of how she lost track of time once the pandemic started. She describes her disorientation with time during the pandemic and what changes she experienced. She describes it as reliving each day and forgetting what day is which.
Briefly talk about the form of the video.
Her signature editing style in her films is the scrapbook like visuals. Old images, videos, her own personal drawings all make up specific aspects of the video. Using photos she’s digitally uploaded in a unorganised format creates a personality for the film. The film also exhibits an extensive amount of use of vibrant colours. It makes the film extremely aesthetically pleasing to watch which is why I am such a big fan of her work. Through inserts of photos and videos she crops together a nostalgic presentation of how time is a concept. She enhances her work through digital drawings and subtitles. Her work is very edited to create this abstract film to mirror the abstract topic of technicolour and time.
Why is this a favourite? What do you like about it? What could be improved?
The way in which Sindha Agar presents her topics are so interesting. I love the nostalgia she presents through vintage video and photos. She addresses her feelings in such a natural and poetic way when she speaks and the visuals match the craziness of her feelings. I do find some of her work chaotic as she jumps from one topic to the next and then back to the first topic, so I would find an improvement in simplifying her topics to just one.
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