Bijoyini Chatterjee
participant in
VideoChannel – [self]~imaging
artists portraying themselves in film & video
NewMediaFest’2010
He is a filmmaker, photographer, software architect and a flamenco dancer. She trained in Computer Design and Theory from the Government College of India (Pune) and Northeastern University (Boston). She also studied Video/Film production and still photography at Massachusetts College of Art and Design (Boston), School of Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) and Harvard University (Cambridge, USA) while working full time as a software designer/architect at Groove Networks.
Her commissioned video works include filming for Italian artist Lara Favoretto’s video installation “Momentary Monumentsâ€, Indian film maker Gayatri Chatterjee’s “Homes for Gods and Mortals (Working title)†and making a visual book trailer for writer Anjali Mitter Duva.
Completed works
A short experimental film called “When I Was†– a film that is a visual letter from a young filmmaker to her older self. It looks at various ways to preserve and arrest memories, thoughts and moments for our older selves.
A series of still photographs (B&W, 35mm film) documenting a high-tech office. These photographs examine the relationship of people to the various spaces at work, spaces where they often spend over 60-70 hours a week and their attempt to humanize and befriend these, often sterile, environments.
Works in Progress
– Making a documentary film called “Flamenco Syndromeâ€. This film documents the complex encounters between international flamenco community and resident gitanos (gypsies) in Jerez de la Frontera, a small town in lower Andalusia (Spain). The project will also explore how flamenco is a way of life for these communities.
– Making a documentary film called “Hair Stories (Working Title)†– a film that looks at the relationship between people who work in the hair industry (hair removal, hair implants and hair styling/cutting) and their relationship to their work, their clients and their environments.
– Making a documentary on an aging artisan from Jerez de la Frontera who used to make intricate wine labels by hand for the Sherry wine industry in the 1960s and 1970s.