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digital poetry, video/animation
Synopsis/Statement
Inspired by the poem "Journey Home" composed by the noted Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore, combined with my writing, "Inner Shrine" reveals the emotional and spiritual journey in searching of one's soul. To find the inward space of one's own—the home of the heart, one has to experience life to the fullest. It is the most intricate encounter that wanderers have to undertake, through which they discover the essence of their existence and the answer for who we are.
Production countries: USA, Canada, Japan
Screening
Sardinia Film Festival — IX International Short Film Award, Cineclub Sassari, Italy
Traverse Vidéo, Les Abattoirs Museum (Musée des Abattoirs), Toulouse, France
16th International Film Festival ZOOM — ZBLIŻENIA, Jelenia Gora, Poland
10th Athens Digital Art Festival, Athens, Greece
10th Video Art Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece
8th International Streaming Festival, Het Nutshuis, The Hague, The Netherlands
2nd International Istanbul Triennale, Taksim Republic Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
FILE—Electronic Language International Festival, FIESP Cultural Center – Ruth Cardoso, Sao Paulo, Brazil
CologneOFF VII: Mexico—International Videoart Festival, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, Mexico City
CologneOFF VII: Art & the City—International Videoart Festival, CologneOFF Riga, Latvia
The 3rd Chinese Women Artists Video Art Festival, Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro, Mexico
1st International Motion Festival, European University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
Jetlag—Sino-German Multimedia Contemporary Art Exhibition, Kunsthalle Faust, Germany
Festival de Arte Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain
danubeVIDEOARTfestival, Stadtkino Grein Theater, Grein, Austria
NAA Festival, EsferaNegra and Pelouro da Cultura de Barcelos, Portugal
Lightworks, International Film, Sound, and New Media Festival, Grimsby, United Kingdom
FONLAD Digital Arts Festival, IC Zero Assn., Videolab Project, and Cooperative Castles Theatre, Coimbra, Portugal
MTV: Momentum Technology Video Film Festival, Institute for Women and Art, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
Close Encounters, Gallery 51, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, USA
INSTA: International Show and Tell Annual Media Festival, University of Tennessee, USA
LAMPS Film Festival, New Media Department, University of Lethbridge, Canada
XII Festival International de la Imagen, Cultural and Convention Center Teatro Fundadores, Manizales, Colombia
Visible Verse Festival, Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver, Canada
Shorty Film Festival, cInéMAGINE, Lethbridge, Canada
Galeria Sment, Barcelos, Portugal
Inner Shrine
The time and path that my journey takes are long.
I came out on the chariot of the first gleam of light, and pursued my voyage
through the wilderness of worlds leaving my track on many a star and planet.
It is the most distant course that comes nearest to oneself,
and that experience is the most intricate which leads to the utter simplicity of a tune.
The travelers have to knock at every alien door to come to their own,
and in the end, one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine.
The eternal moments travel through channels of light;
never can one grasp the mere feelings nested close to the heart.
I am.
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