Sibi Sekar
Directing
Biography
Sibi Sekar was born on April 29th, 1997 in Tamil Nadu, India. He fell in love with cinema at an early age upon viewing the works of directors such as Luis Buñuel and Sergei Parajanov. Sibi began making experimental films and directed his first short films, “Night Train Light On Track “ and “Teal City,” during his postgraduate years. Sibi has since directed, produced & edited one feature film, and approximately ten short films. His work has been screened at over fifteen festivals across four continents. He recently graduated from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras with a master's degree in Humanities and Social Sciences and is currently working on explorative films that are primarily an ascetic representation of resistance. The thematic dispositions of his films concern the symbolic depiction of being, nothingness and the transcendental space.
Known For
Through episodes that display a high degree of idiosyncrasy, we follow a stranger who creates his own inverse reality and an imaginary order which serves to stress his inexistence elsewhere. The film is a personal documentary that represents a constellation of past time and suspended time while attempting to explore the Foucauldian phrase 'a placeless place'.
Of Other Spaces
The film explores the spatial dimensions of a being who alternately enters and exits a fragmented world of projections where thoughts, memories and dreams blend into a strange loop of treacherous images. The film explores multiple layers of in-ness such as inclusion, depiction and representation.
On Floating Bodies
A flight lands in Teal City. A man is trapped in a frame. A wave of verticals hit the city.
Teal City
The night train is right on track and the journey is slightly marred by an array of lights.
Night Train Light On Track
In the State of 'Land Knownable', 'The Building' AKA 'The Center' is the only existing structure. Gaze, a (non)entity recruited by 'The Building', shadows and observes two (human)beings named Regine Olsen and Man Ray. Gaze creates moving image reports to assess their cerebral resistance to spectatorship.
I Wonder If Daylights Were White Nights or Something Childish But Very Natural
The film is a fragmented representation of an artist's experience at an art gallery where Wolfgang Lehmann, as a part of his masterclass, shows 2 of his films and in-between, a film by Kurt Kren.
i flew to watch traces of garden, dragonflies with birds and snake and in-between Wolfgang Lehmann introduced me to Kurt Kren's mama and papa
XX and XY find themselves struggling against oblivion, while an external entity referred to as ‘The Rose’, infringes their identities. The hows and whys are not applicable, although XX and XY claim that ‘The Rose’ distorts their understanding of the roles they've occupied.
you are, i am
The broken gravity tries to keep you on the floor. What is bizarre when dimensions are overleaping? While directions are directionless, What is down is up, and right could be left; Don't mis-step, you'll fall into the portal, After all we don't know if you are entering or exiting.
The Tale Of The Entry/Exit
A countdown to non-film. A man humming. An image of a self drowning oneself. Windows.
Something on a Summer's Noon
The miniature plant pot, the mother, the son and the dusty ceiling fan. Unmasking is poetry is self .Thoughts Out Of Season is a contemplation of loss and grief as much as it is a search for identity and peace. The film concerns the transformation of an eternally wandering soul and his fragmented understanding of home and motherhood.
Thoughts Out Of Season
The process of un-remembering. A visual representation of scorching memories irreversibly burning.
Animus Incendium
The film explores the syncretic notions, ‘construction’ and ‘intuition’.
Representation
A desaturated image of Edvard Munch’s painting Der Schrei der Natur (The Scream of Nature) is overlaid with several monochromatic images of landscapes and seascapes. The film uses an original soundtrack employing a discordance between sound and images to explore the incongruity between the auditory and visual sensory modalities. The soundtrack in the film is a constant distraction in terms of visual perception and vice versa, i.e, the images in the film are a constant distraction in terms of auditory perception.
Malady of the Infinite
An 'outsider' discovers a mysterious 'being' wandering in an unknown realm. Through dreams and visions, the 'outsider' finds a gateway to the realm and navigates this bizarre new world 'of other spaces'.