Exploring the streets of Chennai with Rowan Lee Hartsuiker.
India is a busy country. In this short film I point the camera on the streets of Madras (Chennai), a city in Tamil Nadu, South India. The streets of Madras are in every possible way full of life and energy. Of course also full of contradictions in extreme poverty compared to extreme wealth. It feels like the whole world lives on one of these single streets.
While staying some time in this city I decided to experience the streets as they are, by not using taxis, rickshaws or tuk-tuks. I decided to daily walk to my destinations and feel the energy that is India. After a while of walking on these streets, the total chaos seems to bring your mind in to a certain state of dreaminess, where you don’t longer hear the constant honking of cars. In this short experimental film I have tried to audiovisualize this experience.
23May
