Kran Film Collective » Jaishri Abichandani

Bijli, heart of a drag queen

Jaishri Abichandani — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:36:28 +0000

Bijli/ Mohammed Fayyaz is a dear friend and drag queen from Pakistan who sought asylum on grounds of sexual orientation. An accomplished performer, Bijli often dances in public spaces; however this video offers the viewer a very intimate and personal performance of a traditional folk song about love and longing. Marvin Sewell composed original music for this piece.

2.5mins 2006

Three Muses

Jaishri Abichandani — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:30:28 +0000

Three Muses was created entirely in Brooklyn, New York. It was produced in collaboration with a musician (Marvin Sewell) and three singers of Indian (Samita Sinha), Pakistani (Bijli) and Nepali (Tenzin Dolker) origin. I worked out tonal ranges and songs with the singers then gave a composer Marvin Sewell a brief about the ideas behind the piece and a video recording of their renditions. He composed the soundtrack; which I then treated visually. The ensuing result of our process is an ambient video piece, which combines my interests in spirituality, feminist and identity issues, whist engaging formal art historical dialogues about painting and landscape, abstraction and representation, hi and low brow, written, performative and visual art.

2006

Interview with a Reluctant Veteran : Anuradha Bhagwati

Jaishri Abichandani — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:27:22 +0000

Interview with a Reluctant Veteran: Anuradha Bhagwati. 19.00 mins 2007

This video interview was created for an exhibit at PS1/MOMA entitled Emergency Room. As one of the participating artists, I was required to create work on a daily basis that responded to something in the media within 24 hours prior to production. In response to the Senate debate, I researched and interviewed an female Indian- American veteran about the proposed troop increase in Iraq. Anuradha Kristina Bhagwati was a Captain in the United States Marine Corps from 1999 through 2004. Shot in a fashion that simulates media sound bites, the video focuses on Anuradha’s perspective on violence in the military.”