Video Wednesdays
       
 
Title
  Panic City
Year
  2006
Duration
  3 min
Sound
  video with sound
Channel
  Single channel
Concept& Direction:
  Gigi Scaria
 
 

In Panic City I was trying to comment on the new construction fever, the social hierarchies and the cleaning process the government was involved due to the upcoming commonwealth games in Delhi.The panic city is an animation constructed from photographic stills. The area you see is the old Delhi shot from the minaret of Jama Masjid (one of the Asia's largest Mosque built by the Mugal emperor Shah Jahan ).I took almost 36 shots, which are stitched together then used the flash animation to move the buildings up and down. The music used was a mix of western classical and the opera records from Pavarotti. The western classical music is used in the video in-order to show the role of a 'conductor'. The conductor takes the stand as an outsider and controls the event from a higher pedestal. In the same manner the forces of globalization encounter with the local system, which is very practical and has a basic logic of survival. Most of the area you see in the video was once part of the target for the cleaning drive. Panic city also functions as a musical video without forcing the viewer to get into any of the serious discourse. In the sense it suggest that the ignorance make us rejoice and find beauty in the most panic situations of our times.