CAMP
Established 2007, Mumbai, India
Live and work in Mumbai
 

CAMP’s studio is a centre of social and artistic activity in the neighbourhood of Chuim Village, Mumbai. The group of artists has a focused interest in infrastructures and forms of cinema and archiving; they have been engaging with closed-circuit television (CCTV) and video imaging since the early 2000s, understanding the medium and its technological evolution; investigating its social and authoritative implications by entering control rooms with members of the public; and deploying surveillance cameras as an affective medium to create new forms of documentary film.

Bombay Tilts Down 2002 is a culmination of this longstanding engagement in CCTV phenomena — creating a new way to examine the social and structural hierarchies and categories of CAMP’s home city. Filmed using a remote-controlled pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) CCTV camera mounted at a single-point location on the 35th floor of a building in South Central Mumbai, Bombay Tilts Down is choreographed as ‘a landscape movie in facets’.