(Hybrid Film (Corridor from Ray's 'Ghare Baire', tile floor, earth floor, women moving forwards, fallen tree, Gulmohar and Banyan, owlgoat, dust, peacock, Bombay ephemera, broom, bamboo scaffolding, foil arch, tinsel, plywood) HD-bd-r, edition of 5 Year: 2015 Brief description: In Satyajit Rays 1984 Cinematic adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore’s 1916 novel Ghare Baire (‘The Home and the World”), the female protagonist passes through a corridor from domestic chambers, marking her entry into the outside world and involvement in the affairs of a nascent post-colonial India. As she moves the film turns from black and white to color. ‘Home and the World, the first hybrid film in a new body of work, draws parallels between the history represented in Ray’s film and the present/future moment. Composed around the breakdown of the colonial corridor architecture and an unexpected shift into another kind of urban, it pictures a world in motion. Despite the sense of collapse, a series of repeating female figures continue to progress forwards, marching, walking and sweeping, sometimes affecting a change in the scene. The air is filled first with floating shards of falling glass and then to the ephemera that evidences the daily practices sustaining small merchant and domestic cultures, swirling with the dust. As with my previous hybrid film works, Home and the World is composed of photographic, digital and painted source material. There is a slow and deliberate sense of rhythm, built through overlaying distinct types of motion. Begun in San Francisco, it developed during a residency in Mumbai, where much of the photographic material was gathered. The work is s very much inspired by the magnitudes of that place, and a general sense of the urban present undergoing rapid transformation.