Swati Khurana

:: View 'Pure Magic'
2006 RT 3:15
:: View'Good Touch, Bad Touch'
2006 RT: 2:15
:: View'Sweetest Hangover'
2006 RT 3:15

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First Comes Love (Videos 2006)
In a typical Bollywood film, the hero and heroine fall in-love and when the sexual tension builds to the point of a kiss, the couple elaborately lip-synchs as they cross time, space and costume continuums. And usually, the film ends when they get married. To immigrants, Bollywood films become something else. They become a lifeline to India--what we remember or never knew existed. They also became a way for me to define an essentialized, melodramatic, fantasy-based culture as a cornerstone of my identity. As I think back on these films on the small screen in the early 1980s, I often wonder, where does Bollywood end and MTV begin? In the confusion of that zeitgeist, I created mash-up soundtracks—where elements of different pre-existing pieces of music are combined to make new songs. I used Bollywood clips from several different movies and overlayed original footage to create this series of textured, nostalgic, and disorienting videos. And the end product may resemble a music video, but it seeks to create a dreamscape.

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	First Comes Love :: View 'Pure Magic' 2006 RT 3:15 :: View'Good Touch, Bad Touch' 2006 RT: 2:15 :: View'Sweetest Hangover' 2006 RT 3:15 video will open in a separate window First Comes Love (Videos 2006) In a typical Bollywood film, the hero and heroine fall in-love and when the sexual tension builds to the point of a kiss, the couple elaborately lip-synchs as they cross time, space and costume continuums. And usually, the film ends when they get married. To immigrants, Bollywood films become something else. They become a lifeline to India--what we remember or never knew existed. They also became a way for me to define an essentialized, melodramatic, fantasy-based culture as a cornerstone of my identity. As I think back on these films on the small screen in the early 1980s, I often wonder, where does Bollywood end and MTV begin? In the confusion of that zeitgeist, I created mash-up soundtracks—where elements of different pre-existing pieces of music are combined to make new songs. I used Bollywood clips from several different movies and overlayed original footage to create this series of textured, nostalgic, and disorienting videos. And the end product may resemble a music video, but it seeks to create a dreamscape. -------------------------------------------------------- :: back to list of videos