Forced Accidents

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When I started working with the videos of Tear Gas victims creating evidence, the phenomenon intrigued me. This evidence was created in a limit condition, namely: inside the fog of tear gas bombs. Many of which has the visual quality of accidental evidence; where the footage were captured by accident. Though the people inside the tear gas fog were not there as merely an accident but as a part of a forced accident; where one oppressive party created the situation for this accident to happen: firing tear gas bombs at them.

I wanted to re-create visuals with the qualities of accidental evidence in my footage but through forced accident. I chose our ‘kot’s kitchen rooftop as my experimental site. To achieve the quality of forced accident, I experimented with a two meter long stick to attach my phone camera to, which was inspired by the work of artist Michel François. This stick worked as my limit condition. Through trying to capture a footage with this limit condition, I have tried to make a forced accident, where regardless of my intensions to capture a video I have had a very little control over the footage. The stick being bigger than my body, the limitations created genuine accidents while filming. 

I also wanted to work with disorientation, transparency/blur and reflection. Disorientation appeared as a quality of the accidental evidence. In the video through transparent surfaces like stagnant water and glass, I tried capturing the reflections of the limits to the space. The disorientation is captured in the camera movement as well as the reflections.

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