Platform for experimental and anthropological film,
sound, and landscape cinema.
sound, and landscape cinema.
Film
From Gulf To Gulf To Gulf
Camp
2013, United Arab Emirates/ India/ Yemen/ Somalia/ Qatar/ Pakistan/ Oman/ Kuwait/ Kenya/ Iraq/ Iran, VHS-C and cell phone video transferred to HD, 83 min, Kutchi, Arabic, Urdu, Hindi with English subtitles
A boat has many powers: to gather a society in its making, to distribute goods, to carry people and ideas across places that are seemingly more different than ever before. From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf is a vast, undulating and musical spatio-temporal journey through the Western Indian Ocean. The film is a result of four years of dialogue, friendship and exchange between CAMP and a group of sailors from the Gulf of Kutch. Their travels from Pakistan and Southern Iran, through the Persian and Aden Gulfs show us a world cut into many pieces, not easily bridged by nostalgics or nationalists. Instead, we follow the physical crossings made by these groups of people who make and sail boats, and who also make videos, sometimes married with a song.