From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf
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From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf
From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf is produced by CAMP, a cross-disciplinary artist collective based in Mumbai, in collaboration with sailors from the Kutch district in western India. Working over a four-year period, the sailors used a variety of recording devices, including mobile phones and high-definition cameras, to document their journeys to and from maritime ports across the Arabian Sea. The film captures the transportation of goods for trade, the construction of ships, boats chugging through choppy water, sea life, and the industrial landscape of port cities on the coasts of western India, Pakistan, and Somalia. These everyday images are set to Bollywood music and religious songs selected by the sailors.
By handing over authorship to the sailors and inviting them to tell their own stories through the moving image, the artists challenge traditional documentary filmmaking techniques. At the same time, the work offers an intimate and human depiction of global trade networks, and the rigorous but rarely acknowledged work of these merchants and seafarers.
CAMP. From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf, 2013. HDV tape, SDV, VHS tape, and cellphone camera footage edited and transferred to single-channel digital video (colour, sound), duration: 83 min.. M+, Hong Kong. © CAMP
CAMP. From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf, 2013. HDV tape, SDV, VHS tape, and cellphone camera footage edited and transferred to single-channel digital video (colour, sound), duration: 83 min.. M+, Hong Kong. © CAMP
CAMP. From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf, 2013. HDV tape, SDV, VHS tape, and cellphone camera footage edited and transferred to single-channel digital video (colour, sound), duration: 83 min.. M+, Hong Kong. © CAMP
CAMP. From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf, 2013. HDV tape, SDV, VHS tape, and cellphone camera footage edited and transferred to single-channel digital video (colour, sound), duration: 83 min.. M+, Hong Kong. © CAMP
CAMP. From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf, 2013. HDV tape, SDV, VHS tape, and cellphone camera footage edited and transferred to single-channel digital video (colour, sound), duration: 83 min.. M+, Hong Kong. © CAMP
CAMP. From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf, 2013. HDV tape, SDV, VHS tape, and cellphone camera footage edited and transferred to single-channel digital video (colour, sound), duration: 83 min.. M+, Hong Kong. © CAMP
CAMP. From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf, 2013. HDV tape, SDV, VHS tape, and cellphone camera footage edited and transferred to single-channel digital video (colour, sound), duration: 83 min.. M+, Hong Kong. © CAMP
CAMP. From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf, 2013. HDV tape, SDV, VHS tape, and cellphone camera footage edited and transferred to single-channel digital video (colour, sound), duration: 83 min.. M+, Hong Kong. © CAMP
CAMP. From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf, 2013. HDV tape, SDV, VHS tape, and cellphone camera footage edited and transferred to single-channel digital video (colour, sound), duration: 83 min.. M+, Hong Kong. © CAMP
CAMP. From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf, 2013. HDV tape, SDV, VHS tape, and cellphone camera footage edited and transferred to single-channel digital video (colour, sound), duration: 83 min.. M+, Hong Kong. © CAMP
CAMP. From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf, 2013. HDV tape, SDV, VHS tape, and cellphone camera footage edited and transferred to single-channel digital video (colour, sound), duration: 83 min.. M+, Hong Kong. © CAMP
CAMP. From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf, 2013. HDV tape, SDV, VHS tape, and cellphone camera footage edited and transferred to single-channel digital video (colour, sound), duration: 83 min.. M+, Hong Kong. © CAMP
About the Director
CAMP is an Indian collective/studio founded around 2007 in Mumbai by Shaina Anand, Sanjay Bhangar, and Ashok Sukumaran. They have worked with a wide range of mediums and forms, such as film, installation, photography, printed matter, performance, and digital platforms, exploring the juncture of technological and artistic experimentation. Their cross-disciplinary practice often engages and collaborates with specific groups and communities over a long period of time, examining the impacts of various global phenomena and interrogating the established systems of authority.
Image at top: CAMP. From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf, 2013. HDV tape, SDV, VHS tape, and cellphone camera footage edited and transferred to single-channel digital video (colour, sound), duration: 83 min.. M+, Hong Kong. © CAMP