Bant Singh is a lower caste Mazhabi, Dalit Sikh farmer and singer from the Jhabhar village in the Mansa district (Punjab, India), who has become an agricultural labour activist, fighting against the power of the local landowner. Described by Amit Sengupta as “an icon of Dalit resistance”* he has been active in organizing poor, agricultural workers, activism that continues despite a 2006 attack that cost him “both of his lower arms and his left leg.”*
“Bant Singh – Word Sound & Power” is a short film attempting to showcase Singh’s songs of rebellion, inter-cast conflict and violence.
Word, Sound & Power or The Bant Singh project wants to spread Singh’s social critical message to the masses using dancehall, dubstep, ragga and poetry, produced by Chris McGuinness in collaboration with dancehall artist Delhi Sultanate.
Thus we see, activism, music and documentary collide in this 12 minute piece.
After a stint abroad I return with a ‘Sunday Morning Short’ entitled: Birth of a Book.
A Geyrhalter-esque documentary on the mechanics of making a book, not the labors of the writer who tortured him/her-self in solitude but rather the grand production of the physical object.
Nick Waterhouse isn’t hung up on any specific neighborhood but it is most definitely in or around South of Market, San Francisco. As Waterhouse stated San Francisco was the place that “just made sense”. There was something in the air. However it couldn’t be pinned down to something/someplace specific [continue]
I’d like to introduce you all to a real man. One who prefers whiskey, has tattoos and isn’t scarred of an amplifier. His name is Hanni El Khatib. I first noticed him with his EP, Bullfighter’s hart(2008), and most particularly with the song ‘I know it’s Bad for me’. As it paralleled particular actions and situations I happened to find myself in. Wild drunk nights in which you end up hanging out in a joyous melancholia with a collection of people you don’t really know and don’t really care about.
Last Sunday Night – February 5th – I defied the snow and traveled to Rotterdam to see him play at Rotown.
On this Sunday Morning Short, a taste of Hanni El Khatib and Alaska, in ‘Grizzlies, Pickles & Whiskey’
There are no set laws on how long a short should be, although I set as my own guideline that a ‘Sunday Morning Short’ should be 7 minutes or less, I’m going to break that rule today with a 20 minute film.
Is a short documentary about a street art mural project in Rochester, NY in July 2011. Combining local artists and 4 artists from South Africa. The piece of street art is intended as a piece of visual interventionism inside this community. To change a place using art. To expose people to another way of living via form and expression on a wall.
Bant Singh is a lower caste Mazhabi, Dalit Sikh farmer and singer from the Jhabhar village in the Mansa district (Punjab, India), who has become an agricultural labour activist, fighting against the power of the local landowner. Described by Amit Sengupta as “an icon of Dalit resistance”* he has been active in organizing poor, agricultural workers, activism that continues despite a 2006 attack that cost him “both of his lower arms and his left leg.”*
“Bant Singh – Word Sound & Power” is a short film attempting to showcase Singh’s songs of rebellion, inter-cast conflict and violence.
Word, Sound & Power or The Bant Singh project wants to spread Singh’s social critical message to the masses using dancehall, dubstep, ragga and poetry, produced by Chris McGuinness in collaboration with dancehall artist Delhi Sultanate.
Thus we see, activism, music and documentary collide in this 12 minute piece.
After a stint abroad I return with a ‘Sunday Morning Short’ entitled: Birth of a Book.
A Geyrhalter-esque documentary on the mechanics of making a book, not the labors of the writer who tortured him/her-self in solitude but rather the grand production of the physical object.
There are no set laws on how long a short should be, although I set as my own guideline that a ‘Sunday Morning Short’ should be 7 minutes or less, I’m going to break that rule today with a 20 minute film.
Is a short documentary about a street art mural project in Rochester, NY in July 2011. Combining local artists and 4 artists from South Africa. The piece of street art is intended as a piece of visual interventionism inside this community. To change a place using art. To expose people to another way of living via form and expression on a wall.
Nick Waterhouse isn’t hung up on any specific neighborhood but it is most definitely in or around South of Market, San Francisco. As Waterhouse stated San Francisco was the place that “just made sense”. There was something in the air. However it couldn’t be pinned down to something/someplace specific [continue]
I’d like to introduce you all to a real man. One who prefers whiskey, has tattoos and isn’t scarred of an amplifier. His name is Hanni El Khatib. I first noticed him with his EP, Bullfighter’s hart(2008), and most particularly with the song ‘I know it’s Bad for me’. As it paralleled particular actions and situations I happened to find myself in. Wild drunk nights in which you end up hanging out in a joyous melancholia with a collection of people you don’t really know and don’t really care about.
Last Sunday Night – February 5th – I defied the snow and traveled to Rotterdam to see him play at Rotown.
On this Sunday Morning Short, a taste of Hanni El Khatib and Alaska, in ‘Grizzlies, Pickles & Whiskey’
has become an agricultural labour activist, fighting against the power of the local landowner. Described by Amit Sengupta as “an icon of Dalit resistance”* he has been active in organizing poor, agricultural workers, activism that continues despite a 2006 attack that cost him “both of his lower arms and his left leg.”*
