Tinsheets: Yashwanthpur - With Pd170 And Maps
Director: Ekta and Yashaswani; Cinematographer: Paromita Dhar, Amit Surendran
Duration: 01:36:11; Aspect Ratio: 1.366:1; Hue: 9.298; Saturation: 0.082; Lightness: 0.070; Volume: 0.190; Cuts per Minute: 6.383
Construction of Metro around Yeshwanthpur. At the end of the tape (22:39) there is a shot of dragon flies against the landscape of Bangalore Suburbia which in a way sums up the story of this tape. Looking for something that illuminates stories of fantasy on a construction site does not always come about but in this shot there was a strange possibility of how we can expose this. There is also a shot of man with a yellow helmet and soiled shirt who walks away from the camera towards the site of construction under a setting sun at 20:00 which I thought was evocative in a classic way. We also tried to hang maps that we had collected of workers movements against the site of construction to intervene into a real landscape to expose the story of mobility but we didnt end up using these for this very awkwardness.
tape 8.mov
More maps against site of construction.
tape 9.mov
tape 10.mov
Documentation of Trees being felled for building the Metro. Trains moving in and out at the Yeshwanthpur railway station. Portraits of drillers, cranes, crushers and other strange large objects used for construction. During these days of shoot we were clear we wanted to expose the scale at which the city was changing and how wide spread it was. We tried to cover all elements that could give one the feeling of making a metropolis.
tape 11.mov
tape 11b.mov
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