OpenCircuit
My name's Rajesh Thind and I'm based in London. I work through OpenCircuit, a network of creative collaborators spread across the globe who come together on a project-by-project basis to make work across a range of disciplines and forms, including tv, film and video, contemporary and conceptual art, design, writing, journalism, photography, activism and academia. We're all full of ideas but we're also very grounded in what's going on around us.
(And we're always open to new...
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activity // OpenCircuit
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Thousands of UK residents have signed a petition against a law preventing photography and filming in certain public places. Yet this all turned out to be a misunderstanding, and no such law was... more-
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- added this 2 months ago
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'Unlit' is a hybrid between a gig and a party, held in random people's houses, and open to anyone, brought together via the internet. more-
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- responded 3 months ago
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We follow Haidar and his young British Muslim friends as they finish 30 days of fasting from sunrise to sunset. We observe them talking about their experience of fasting over the previous month and... more-
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- responded 3 months ago
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This guy embedded himself in a Chicago crack-dealing gang for seven years and wrote a book about it. According to the NYTimes review, he was a bit more than a passive observer, and actually... more-
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- responded 4 months ago
I suspect that the whole "did he cross the line over to the dark side" / "darth vadar in the hood" line is one of the fancy publishing industry marketing strategies... No... more7 other responses to this -
How collaborative filtering turned all of us into DJs. more-
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- greenlight given 8 months ago
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In this video you will see a 13-month old baby showing off her sign language skills. You will see her communicate over 30 signs, see her try to finger spell a word, as well as identify letters in... more-
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- greenlight given 10 months ago
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How collaborative filtering turned all of us into DJs. more-
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- added this 11 months ago
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This art exhibition at the Freud Museum in London examines cultural fear and paranoia in the Western world. more-
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- added this 03/14/07
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Muma, a Spanish-born artist in Lausanne, Switzerland, transforms his town into a scintillating paradise. ... more-
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- greenlight given 03/14/07
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Problems arise when a conservative old man walks into the same lift as a 15 year old girl who likes to play loud music from her mobile phone. more-
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- greenlight given 03/12/07
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skills // OpenCircuit
- Lighting good
- Camera awesome
- Editing good
- Directing awesome
- Graphics n/a
- Sound awesome
- Producing awesome
- Promoting awesome
gear // OpenCircuit
A full Z1 camera kit, super-8 camera, high-res digital stills camera and a laptop-based FCP based edit suite on permanent standby as a mobile production studio. I'm a Filmmaker in a Rucksack. It's definitely the way to go.
details // OpenCircuit
- Current Project:
- Developing my first theatre play, as a writer, with the Royal Court Theatre in London. Various film projects too.
- Current Gig:
- The Mighty Roars
- Influences / Heroes:
- My father.
- Organizations I Belong To:
- DocHouse (UK), Documentary Filmmakers Group (UK), ESoDoc (EU), International Documentary Foundation (Prague), European Documentary Network, ambient.tv
- Political Bent:
- Yes, politics is bent.
- What I would Change About the World:
- Food for every family, a school place for every child, and clean air and water for all.
- Favorite Movies:
- Yojimbo, Wings of Desire, Fallen Angels, Festen...
- Favorite Directors:
- Akira Kurosawa, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Wong Kar-Wai, Hitchcock, Jean-Luc Godard, Fellini, Paul Greengrass, Michel Gondry, Satyajit Ray, Pedro Almodovar, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Spike Jonze, Andrea Arnold, Lars Von Trier...
- Favorite TV Shows:
- Tribe, Spooks, The Daily Show, International documentaries, Chris Morris, Sacha Baron Cohen
- Favorite Bands:
- The Mighty Roars
- Favorite Track:
- "Dolls & Bruises" by The Mighty Roars
- Celebrity Crush:
- Yes, crush the celebrities into small little souvenirs and then sell them and give the money to charity.