CAMP's An Internet Movie about Housing in Bombay/Mumbai
Monday, May 19, 2025 at 7pm
361 Stagg Street, Suite 407, Brooklyn
An Internet Movie about Housing in Bombay/Mumbai, CAMP, 60 mins
The first and last sections from a 6-hour-long video essay, presented live by Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran, co-founders of CAMP, a collaborative artists' studio in Mumbai, India.
Waves of migration, settlement, and expulsion in Bombay/Mumbai produce a vast archive of imaginations about urbanism, squatting, successes and failures of urban change, and questions of how to live and where. An atmosphere that infects cinema, and the other way around. This multi-part video essay titled Ghar Mein Shehar Hona, or Having the City in the House, was developed in 2019 as a series of three films with live voices. It is a particular kind of internet film that draws from and links back to the dense online video and film archives Pad.ma and Indiancine.ma that CAMP co-maintains. The first section of this presentation shows the life and dispersal of a People's (Janta) colony imagined in the 1950s, that comes up against India's budding atomic research site, with cinema, reality, and the future competing at the edge of the city. The second enters a radically transformed highrise mid-city that is also the background for their new CCTV work Bombay Tilts Down, currently showing at MoMA (the museum will also be hosting a CAMP Study Day and video performance on May 20, in partnership with the KNMA, New Delhi).
Tickets - Pay what you can ($10 suggested donation), available at door.
Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 6:30pm. No entry 10 minutes after start of show.
Above: CAMP live camera and narration at the Imax in PVR Phoenix, a cinema hall in the middle of the mill district in Mumbai, 2018.