Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Once upon a playtime

Single Channel Video, 3 Minutes 4 Seconds, 2012, Chittagong.


This video is one of my childhood memory. I made some sound effect of vehicles. I used my voice with some kids.  The video starts with the sound of vehicles and smoke on the toys. The sound continues, some drop of water fall and then the toys crashed on an unknown way.

Once upon a playtime from Palash Bhattacharjee on Vimeo.

The art exhibition titled “Path!”, a tribute to Bangladeshi independent film director Tareque Masud, cinematographer-journalist Mishuk Munier and  their team Wasim, Jamal, Mustafiz  who died in a road accident near Ghior Upazila on 13 August 2011 while returning to Dhaka from Manikhanj on the Dhaka-Aricha highway after visiting a shooting location.  Path!(পথ!) is a Bengali word which English meaning 'The Way!'.


An Essay



2012
Installation
July 12-16, 2012
Bishuad Bangla, Chittagong, Bangladesh
Photo print, Nets, Clips, Sting, High Pressure Sodium Light

This is an essay, a visual essay of my present condition. Here I followed my everyday living and tried to look myself . I ran after myself .Taking some other elements from my place and time I introduced some of my unexpressed views. -This is my offer.
 
 

 Installation Images

I followed myself on my recent everyday life activities with the camera. All the photos are taken by my self during the working time. Every photo has shown my face or parts of my body.  Most of the times I used mobile camera. Then I selected approximately 500/ 600 photos ( sometimes changed during the show) and  made small size like  7cmX9cm for installation.   I printed the photos on photo papers and then I attached the all the photos with net which is installed surrounding the whole gallery room. I used a sodium light with the gallery arrangements. 



   

 







Sample of the photos

Monday, September 10, 2012

Halt

Single Channel Video,
First Show
July 12, 2012, Bishaud Bangla, Chittagong

 http://vimeo.com/52981391
  Halt from Palash Bhattacharjee on Vimeo.

Some unexplainable sudden happenings can make a chaos before I see or understand about those. Memories become blur. The obscurity is a kind of consequence. In this way, I am going on where I feel risk in my every step and then the bitterness of stumbling. The short video translated from my own personal experiences about nightmare and wakefulness. I recorded my face tumbling on mud and its sound. I recorded this with a bleak light.


Video Still