Animal City

Two years in the making, Animal City is a city-symphony film that paints the myriad faces of Mumbai in the 21st century. It fuses urban film making with a musical score, creating a style called 'ethnographic impressionism' that explores the contrasts of this vast and ever-changing megalopolis. The film making process was an urban adventure and the artists were fascinated by various facets of Mumbai particularly the existence of ritualistic practices in a cityscape that is dynamic and always on the move. The film examines the city as a space of performance and questions the extent to which its inhabitants actively perform the city. In doing so, Animal City revisions Mumbai for the global age through an audiovisual collage that is vital, experimental, and impressionistic.