When making a video essay, in the timeline of an editing software, you place the audio from something over the visual from something else, and then suddenly, surprisingly, sometimes this happens. This work was made as part of the Creative Practice Colloquium 2023 at the University of Birmingham.
About the maker
Sureshkumar P. Sekar holds a PhD from the Royal College of Music, London. His research interests are audiovisual culture, audience experience, audiovisual essays, and film music. Some of his peer-reviewed academic video essays—published in journals such as [in]Transition, Tecmerin, Alphaville, and Music, Sound and the Moving Image—have featured in the best video essays of the year list in the Sight and Sound magazine, and they have been nominated for the Learning on Screen Award, the Adelio Ferrero Award, and was announced runner-up for the Andrew Goodwin Memorial Prize 2022.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@wordsvoicecutsuresh