My two objects were the bioscope and the film projector and I wanted to think through their temporal and spatial connections. In the (sorry excuse of a) video, I have tried to illustrate how they were/are used in distinct spatial contexts. Thinking on spatial terms/relationships, it seemed important to me to also include everything that goes into space (or a space holds/contains) and the way social relations were/are also structured. The clips showing actor M.G.R (who started as an actor and went on to become THE most popular Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu) and the fandom around actor Rajnikanth are included to illustrate this. With film projectors and cinema (along with a number of economical and political factors) changed the architecture of the cinema halls and have also restructured the space of the city. The rise of the film industry (and media industry in general) has also impacted the configuration of private space. I have tried to articulate this through the very crude video made on Wevideo. I hesitate to call this analysis of the objects as an exercise in temporality because of two reasons (or maybe it is just one). I am mainly trying to establish their spatial contexts and for that, move freely back and forth in time. The linear video probably has an assumed temporality - but the emphasis is on space-time. This is also, by no means, an exhaustive analysis. I have simplified and telescoped events to fit in a reasonable time frame. The video is at best, a simplistic representation of all that I wanted to do. 

Here it is:  https://www.wevideo.com/hub/#media/ci/116904004

Hmmm.... I watched it again now. I think the video is conveying the wrong impression. That first there was the bioscope and then came the film projector and things changed. That is not what I wanted to say. I wanted to look at both bioscopes and film projectors as old and new objects - as media objects that have been around since the 1890s. So it is two old and two new objects and their space-time relationship with each other and with their past selves. It might have been clearer if I had included clips of the state of bioscope now and a little of early history of cinema... but that would also have made the video too long. So (sigh!) - another failed experiment.