Eating Grass
Synopsis
A poetic and compelling 16mm film shot in London, Karachi and Lahore which encompasses five stories relating to the times of day for Muslim prayer. The work explores overlaps between time, memory and location. Connecting different places and people through images and sounds, Eating Grass contains documentary footage accompanied by a voiceover in both Urdu and English. The textures of individual voices continually slip from one language to another, creating and repeating rhythms. Meaning is not only conveyed by what is said but also by building tonal rhythmical cadences, similar musical structures to those found in jazz or Indian classical music.
Details
- Year
- 2004
- Type of film
- Shorts
- Running Time
- 23 mins
- Format
- 16mm, Beta SP, DigiBeta, Kodak
- Director
- Alia Syed
- Producer
- Tanya Syed, Maheen Zia
- Editor
- Alia Syed
- Screenwriter
- Alia Syed
- Director of Photography
- Noski Deville
- Sound
- Maheen Zia
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 7th September 2006
