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Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom, 2009/09/09 - "Destination/Direction", the one minute film commissioned by Moti Roti as part of the 60x60 Secs international art project, is being shown as part of OneDotZero's City States '09 at the British Film Institute, London - BFI.org.uk.
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About Destination/Direction
A 60 second animation that depicts the artist's return to India after a period of fifteen years. The film explores his reactions to the many changes that have since taken place.
The journey enables the birth of renewed perspectives, encouraging a fresh understanding of heritage, language and self-identity.
Commissioned in December 2007 by Moti Roti for the 60x60 Secs international film project involving 60 artists, who each made a film 60 seconds long. The project has toured nationally in the UK, New York, Berlin, Dubai, India, Pakistan and Singapore.
About OneDotZero film festival
OneDotZero is renowned for uncovering the most innovative and exciting moving image work from all over the world. Its curated compilation programmes showcase inspiring up-and-coming talent alongside fresh work from leading creatives working across digital animation, motion graphics, experimental shorts and music video, all present new approaches to graphic storytelling and suggest future visual trends.
About Citystates '09
"Mankind’s fascination with city living continues at a startling pace, accelerating towards nations of super cities. This programme acts as a survey of our feelings, fears and hopes of urban dwelling now and in the future. From personal stories to community collectives, it’s time to investigate how cities are changing and in turn how we are changing our cities. This programme includes Keith Loutit’s stunning film "Mardi Gras", which uses tilt-shift and time-lapse photography to create the illusion of miniaturization at Sydney’s annual parade."
Screenings:
Friday 11th September 2009 at 4:15 NF1 / Sat 12th September 2009 at 6:10 NF3
About the Artist
Nirmal Singh Dhiman (nirm.co.uk) is a visual artist, illustrator and designer, who likes to make intimate, colourful and multi-faceted narrative drawings and paintings using a combination of watercolour, gouache, inks, collage, letraset, found elements, verse or prose.
Since 1996, he has been working on a visual diary drawing project with over 5,000 entries that span over 14 years - this has become a personal archive of moments, meta-content and ideas.
Alongside this he also works with various computer, photographic, animation and video based means.
Nirmal's work has been shown on BBC TV on several occasions, BBC radio and he has been approached by national newspaper to be featured in a list of British Asian newsmakers of the future who work in creative industries.
In June 2007, students throughout the UK researched and studied the Nirmal's visual diaries as the basis for their response to an AS and A-Level Art exam question based on visual diaries.
Nirmal is based in Crawley, West Sussex.
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