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 collaborations and to exciting ideas so please do get in touch, if you feel like it. The website is coming soon.)
My own work focuses on writing and filmmaking. I make documentaries with UK and international broadcasters, artists, NGOs, and independently for the cinema. I like to make warm, amusing, human films but I also aim to explore how the universal concerns seep through into our everyday lives, wherever and whoever we are. I'm drawn to voices that are honest, direct, engaged and, often, post-national in a way, voices that can be understood wherever they are heard.
Oh, and I love tiramisu and dancing, and I laugh a lot.
My name's Rajesh Thind and I'm based in London. I work through OpenCircuit, a network of creative collaborators spread across the globe... more
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What I would Change About the World:
Food for every family, a school place for every child, and clean air and water for all.
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Current Gig:
The Mighty Roars
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Current Project:
Developing my first theatre play, as a writer, with the Royal Court Theatre in London. Various film projects too.
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Influences/Heroes:
My father.
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Organizations:
DocHouse (UK), Documentary Filmmakers Group (UK), ESoDoc (EU), International Documentary Foundation (Prague), European Documentary Network, ambient.tv
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Political Bent:
Yes, politics is bent.
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Favorite Bands:
The Mighty Roars
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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...
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Favorite Movies:
Yojimbo, Wings of Desire, Fallen Angels, Festen...
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Favorite TV Shows:
Tribe, Spooks, The Daily Show, International documentaries, Chris Morris, Sacha Baron Cohen
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Favorite Track:
"Dolls & Bruises" by The Mighty Roars
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Celebrity Crush:
Yes, crush the celebrities into small little souvenirs and then sell them and give the money to charity.