At the center of this film is a Sri Lankan woman accessing other places in digital form, while situated in her own physical reality. Navigating through a multitude of spaces from the natural world to man-made environments as well as virtual planes, traditional relationships between the creator, the tool, and the subject are questioned, shattered and reconstructed. Reflecting on my own practice as a filmmaker working in non-fiction, the film takes a collage-like approach to examining issues around representation, verisimilitude, the ethnographic image, and the limitations of the form itself. Shot on seven different cameras (and a video synthesizer) on both film and video over the course of a decade in Sri Lanka, China, and the United States, I delve into some of my fundamental curiosities as a filmmaker.

Credits: Rajee Samarasinghe (Director, writer, producer, editor, cinematographer, sound, & colorist), Delini Malka Samarasinghe (Cast), Christina C Nguyen (Film tech)

Production format: 16mm, HD Video

SCREENINGS:
2022: 28th Slamdance Film Festival
2021: 7th San Diego Underground Film Festival
2021: 28th Chicago Underground Film Festival
2021: 22nd San Diego Asian Film Festival
2021: 32nd New Orleans Film Festival
2021: 40th Vancouver International Film Festival
2021: 17th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival - Focus Programme
2021: An Evening with Rajee Samarasinghe - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)