Excerpt from a WIP project:
"When the dolphins heard the people laugh, they sang.
When the people heard the dolphins laugh, they screamed."
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Total Control by The Motels
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16mm contact prints, matts processed with kale juice, and AI-synthesised Tennyson.
Shoutout to @karen.mckeen , without whom this project would've stayed a fever dream in the recesses of my mind.
More to come!
Incredibly chuffed that a script I've spent the last two years working on was recently shortlisted by @tasveerorg and @netflix , for a pitch at Tasveer's Film Fund this year. While we didn't win this fund, I was awestruck by all the love and support our concept was received with in Seattle - I can't wait for us to bring this film into the light soon.
🙌 to @ritameher@farahnousheen and @anushreeshukla_tasveer for the opportunity, and constantly cheering us on.
Shout-out to @zayanagha for coming on board as a producer for the project; to all the love from @ninazehri , @vaish_1404@kailuooooo and @nothisisbecka for bringing some of the test stills to life.
Song To the Siren by Tim Buckley.
बस अंत में तो हम धूल की मिट्टी की पर्वत पर चलेंगे ना भाईसाब? Illusory seductions, and a revolution or so.
Abraka by The Funkees.
@harmanphoto 's gooey Pheonix II. Processed by @lazyfilmlab 🔥
Illegitimate Apparitions, Leftover Sadness & Filmic Fractals: Fall?
Expired @fujifilmx_us 800 from @catlabs.of.jp souped in star anise, wine and lemon juice for a month, hand processed in my bath-tub.
Love Anthem by Ibrahim Maalouf
#35mmfilm #fuji #experimentalphotography
Delighted to have this film on our program this year: Saccharine Wonderland & Forces That Make Me Shiver 2025 6' Directed by: Tushar Gidwani
@hocusfocus95
A lush, two-channel 16mm fever dream exploring queerness, desire, and diaspora through beats, drag, candy, and confession.
Tushar Gidwani — artist, filmmaker, and storyteller — blends food, sexuality, and migration into bold, boundary-breaking cinema. His work has screened worldwide and he currently teaches and creates at Emerson College, Boston.
Tickets in Bio
When most people decide to procrastinate they go for a movie, get drunk, name little children, or eat vanilla ice-cream. When @__sarasa.k____@marvin.jl.xu and I procrastinate, we mind-merge our cine skills, paint cornflakes black and do a @shotdeck #Recreations2025 challenge. Because, why not. @dunemovie (but not Lynch, unfortunately)
Resurrection by Hans Zimmer
Meditative Gutfeels, Broken Piano, Happy Dog. ft. 13 Hours Ahead @__sarasa.k____
Sagittarius By Moonlight, by The Olympians
Shanghai-100 @catlabs.of.jp x Caffenol
