“DUDRO”

A film by Dhanya Pilo & Parimal Phadke
Camera: Frederic Lombard & Dhanya Pilo
Music: Lionel Dentan (DA-SAZ)

5 min 30 seconds
HD (1920x 1080)
India 2011,

We meander through the chaotic landscape of a large cycle rickshaw yard in Nizamuddin (E), Delhi to experience the various narratives that are incubating in it.

The winter light juxtaposed through the complex stacking of the red & blue cycle rickshaws highlights the individual frame of these vehicles calling out to the dancer for a Jugalbandi.

The dancer reacts to the quiet, sleepy yard and its inhabitants using absurd as well as day to day movements.

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We are based out of Mumbai and Pune and this is the first time we have met, interacted and worked on a project like YLP as a film maker & choreographer to make a site specific dance video.

This 3 week Yellow Line Project residency started with a workshop organized by GATI Dance forum facilitated by Liz Aggiss – A British Dance-Film Guru! And she taught us to really break the rules, to search for inspiration from within and to really look around. Location specific projects really teach us to be sensitive to different sites even in their day to day life –  to find the absurd from the normal, and vice versa.

The interesting thing about this project was that we instantly selected the cycle rickshaw yard in Nizamuddin (East) from 6 different locations around  the yellow metro line in Delhi that where offered to us, and the only non polluting vehicle in delhi – resting in its yard, bustling with people resting and staring up at the over bridge above criss crossing with the city nala, the railway station and the station bus stop. So its quiet a busy area, but the yard is like a sleepy willow, quiet and at peace with everyone who comes there for that resting moment.

Shooting there was a bit risky as film crew always attracts a lot of attention and we didn’t want that to affect the images we wanted to capture from the location, so we spent many days there till the locals  where not fascinated with us any longer and we knew the regular rickshaw wallah by name.

So with the co-operation of the rickshaw wallahs and a super crew Parimal and I had a great time exploring the relationship between film, dance and a public site. Parimal being a multifaceted dancer, specializing in Bharathnatayam had to visualize the rickshaw yard as a stage and on watching the film you will see him dance atop rickshaws and dancing with them in quite a lyrical way. The Music for the film has been done by Lionel Denton (from the band Da-Saz) with some scat singing by Parimal. All the sounds in the film are from the location itself and Lionel has used found sounds from the location to make the background score.

Neither  did we have to spend to much time to convince the rickshawallahs to do syncronised formations with their rickshaws which we were shooting from a 50 foot crane. They where more than happy to be part of our adventure.

Dhanya Pilo aka. VJ DECOY, is a Mumbai based Film Designer & visual artist. Her work is in the sphere of bringing together art, design & technology so as to manifest them into new forms of communication for the unsuspecting audience.

While Visual Jockeying – Dhanya uses her film making, photography & digital skills to blend, superimpose and trigger various video sequences onto projection screens/surfaces so as to create live – visually enticing streams – thus adding color, life, movement, & dimension to the aural experience created by various Musicians. Dhanya has collaborated with various musicians/ bands/sound artists from India, France, Germany, America, Switzerland,Thailand & Russia in the past. www.vimeo.com/dhanyapilo

TEDxYouth@Masala will feature a combined collaborative piece, titled PLAY – with live visuals by Dhanya Pilo (VJ Decoy) supported by live music/coding by SeeMOS (Soumitra Bhat)’.

The act of Play is something they feel young people are giving up too early in this zeitgeist – by growing up so fast! As a reminder to youth to take part in and to be a sport in not just work/education but to things happening around them. To challenge boundaries and constraints and strive to create luminal spaces full of un-ending possibilities.

Dhanya and Soumitra will share an 18 min audio visual jugal bandi with the audience showcasing how much a live visual artist/performer can interpret the music that is being played as well as how much “play” is possible within the range of particular set of tools/ gadgets for a complete aural+visual experience.”

Finally the summer brake is really over and our first EP after summer delievered the shops. What can be better as a release from our well known Cio`Dor.

“Cio definitely does have her own world of minimalism. Her music is capable of inspiring strong visuals, and I’m always happy to enjoy it as an experience, rather than just some tracks.” (Nightlight Music)

Wasserkraft: Video by VJ Decoy(India): Real filmed with color effecs & texture, music by Cio D’or            
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfDge-KaTIs&feature=related

Press:

http://thepublicworksdepartment.blogspot.com/2011/10/cio-dor-magnetfluss-ep-prg022.html

http://teaandtechno.blogspot.com/2011/10/tea-selections-cio-dor.html

http://www.ciodor.de

Project Square is a new band, I like their edgy music, and it was fun Vjing for them!

I think together we were able to keep the audience amused!

twang twang twang

http://madlab.org.uk/content/made-in-india/

final screen

Aether9 collaboration,

Remote Realtime story telling from 6 continents.