The Vanishing Point: Moving Images After Video | Book Launch and Discussion

We were pleased to collaborate with Tulika Books New Delhi to host the official launch of The Vanishing Point: Moving Images After Video, published as part of India since the 90s series. Edited by Rashmi Devi Sawhney the publication tracks the fugitive afterlife of the moving image, in its fragmented post-celluloid forms. The evening started with a presentation of video and film excerpts, curated by Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Rashmi Devi Sawhney, followed by a discussion with some members of the Mediastorm Collective, a documentary film collective that came together in the 1980s, and the artist, Mochu.

The Vanishing Point: Moving Images after Video (edited by Rashmi Devi Sawhney) tracks the fugitive afterlife of the moving image ever since the proclaimed death of celluloid film took place. At once everywhere and nowhere, rapidly circulating moving images have become archives of public memory, degraded repositories of what was cinema, surveillance tools, and instruments of governance. In this book filmmakers, moving image artists and theorists are assembled to reconstruct one of the most elusive, and significant, transformations of the millennial turn.

The publication is part of India Since the 90s (General Editor: Ashish Rajadhyaksha), a series of six titles exploring recent history from the standpoint of the present moment. This series includes texts and images from diverse academic disciplines, curated and assembled by practitioners looking back to reconsider our past. The first two volumes in the series The Hunger of the Republic, Our Present in Retrospect (edited by Ashish Rajadhyaksha) and Improvised Futures, Encountering the Body in Performances (edited by Ranjana Dave) were be launched at events through November at Khuli Khirkee, Studio Safdar and CSDS.