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.
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activity // OpenCircuit
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"The European Parliament on Thursday called the fingerprinting of Gypsies in Italy a clear act of racial discrimination and urged the authorities to stop it. In a resolution, the EU... more-
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This is what's really going on underneath all this populist harnessing of xenophobic tendencies... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7548930.stm Funny how... more52 other comments on this -
'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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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... more
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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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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... more6 other comments on this -
How collaborative filtering turned all of us into DJs. more
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Thanks for your comments everyone. I wondered what the CBS buy-out would mean for them too. So...I went back a few days ago and now we're cutting a follow up... more14 other comments on this -
Muma, a Spanish-born artist in Lausanne, Switzerland, transforms his town into a scintillating paradise. "Allumons Lausanne!" (French for "Let's Light Up Lausanne!")... more
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hey, did you hear about the work that was done at the last Documenta? An artist named Thomas Hirschhorn. Similar social basis and equally wonderful. Check out: link... more90 other comments on this -
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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I wish they made mobile phones with proper speakers.... Good work. GL. more252 other comments on this -
One anti-war protestor has been at London's Parliament Square for more than five years, sleeping there day and night. Brian Haw's story, as well as that of his supporters featured in... more
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Hey Eleni, did you hear Brian Haw got voted C4 Viewers' Most Important Political Personality of 2006 (after a very effective impromptu email campaign...)? Good... more30 other comments on this -
This art exhibition at the Freud Museum in London examines cultural fear and paranoia in the Western world. more
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Please note that the following contributors appear in this piece (in order of appearance): Predrag Pajdic, Curator Doug Fishbone, Artist Emilia Telese, Artist... more6 other comments on this
details // OpenCircuit
- What I would Change About the World:
- Food for every family, a school place for every child, and clean air and water for all.
- Current Gig:
- The Mighty Roars
- Current Project:
- Developing my first theatre play, as a writer, with the Royal Court Theatre in London. Various film projects too.
- Influences/Heroes:
- My father.
- Location:
- Currently in London, UK
- Organizations:
- DocHouse (UK), Documentary Filmmakers Group (UK), ESoDoc (EU), International Documentary Foundation (Prague), European Documentary Network, ambient.tv
- Political Bent:
- Yes, politics is bent.
- Favorite Bands:
- The Mighty Roars
- 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 Movies:
- Yojimbo, Wings of Desire, Fallen Angels, Festen...
- Favorite TV Shows:
- Tribe, Spooks, The Daily Show, International documentaries, Chris Morris, Sacha Baron Cohen
- 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.
- URL:
- http://www.opencircuit.co.uk (coming soon)
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.
