SUB CATEGORY :

CINEMATOGRAPHY

COMPANY ENTERING :

J. WALTER THOMPSON INDIA, MUMBAI

TITLE :

BLINK TEST

BRAND :

JIMMY NELSON FOUNDATION

ADVERTISER :

JIMMY NELSON FOUNDATION

AGENCY :

J. WALTER THOMPSON INDIA, MUMBAI/ J. WALTER THOMPSON, AMSTERDAM

CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER :

BAS KORSTEN/SENTHIL KUMAR

EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTOR :

BAS KORSTEN

CREATIVE DIRECTOR :

BAS KORSTEN

COPYWRITER :

SENTHIL KUMAR

ART DIRECTOR :

SENTHIL KUMAR

FILM PRODUCTION COMPANY :

SMALL FRY PRODUCTIONS, MUMBAI

DIRECTOR :

SENTHIL KUMAR

CINEMATOGRAPHER :

JIMMY NELSON

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER :

RYAN SUARES

FILM PRODUCER :

MARIT DE HOOG

POST-PRODUCTION COMPANY :

SMALL FRY PRODUCTIONS, MUMBAI

EDITOR :

PRIYANK PREMKUMAR

ASSOCIATE EDITOR :

KEVIN MENEZES

ONLINE EDITOR :

DEV NAYAK

POST PRODUCER :

JEBASTIN ANTON

SPECIAL EFFECTS COMPANY :

PRIME FOCUS, MUMBAI

VISUAL EFFECTS :

DEV NAYAK

SOUND PRODUCTION COMPANY :

WAH WAH MUSIC, MUMBAI

SOUND DESIGNER :

DHRUV GHANEKAR/JOSEPH GEORGE

MUSIC COMPOSER :

DHRUV GHANEKAR

VOCAL PERCUSSION :

TAUFIQ QURESHI

FOLK SINGERS :

VARIOUS INDIGENOUS ARTISTS

ENGLISH SYNOPSIS :

TRY NOT TO BLINK WHEN YOU ARE WATCHING THIS INTERACTIVE FILM.
THE AVERAGE HUMAN EYE BLINKS EVERY 10-15 SECONDS. HOW LONG WILL YOU LAST ? HOW LONG WILL THEY LAST ? BLINK. AND THEY ARE GONE. THE FILM DOCUMENTS THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNEY INTO THE WOMB OF MOTHER NATURE TO SAVE INDIGENOUS CULTURES, THAT ARE DISAPPEARING FASTER THAN YOU CAN BLINK, AS THEIR FAMILY TREES AND FORESTS AND RIVERS AND HABITATS ARE DESTROYED IN THE QUEST FOR HUMAN PROGRESS. IT’S TIME TO RESPECT, PROTECT AND PRESERVE THE CRADLE OF HUMAN CULTURE, ONE INDIGENOUS TRIBE AT A TIME. MOVING CINEMAGRAPHS IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE, WERE CRAFTED OUT OF STILL PHOTOGRAPHS TO SHIFT THE VISUAL STORYTELLING INTO A MOVING EXPERIENCE. THE SOUND DESIGN AND ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE IS ELEVATED BY THE RYTHM, THE BEATS, THE CHANTS AND WAR CRIES OF THE VARIOUS INDIGENOUS TRIBES FEATURED IN THIS FILM.

ENGLISH CONTEXT EXPLANATION :

THE BLINK TEST IS AN EXPERIMENT IN THE VISUAL LANGUAGE THAT CONNECTS THE DOTS BETWEEN SURVIVAL AND REVIVAL OF THE LAST FEW INDIGENOUS TRIBES LEFT ON EARTH. A PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY OF THE SPIRITUAL SIMILARITY AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN 36 ISOLATED TRIBES AROUND THE WORLD. A PRESERVATION IN FILM OF OVER 2000 RARE PHOTOGRAPHS, FROZEN FOREVER IN TIME AND STRETCHED INTO MOVING CINEMAGRAPHS, CELEBRATING THE FORCES OF NATURE THAT BARE THEIR COURAGE, FEATURING EACH TRIBE STANDING STILL,
IN SPITE OF AN ENDANGERED FUTURE. BLINK. AND THEY ARE GONE.
THE VISUAL LANGUAGE IS ELEVATED BY STRETCHING STILL PHOTOGRAPHS INTO MOVING CINEMAGRAPHS. INDIGENOUS FAMILY TREES, WATERHOLES, HABITATS AND HUNTING GROUNDS, ALL STITCHED TOGETHER INTO A SEAMLESS VIDEO THAT CELEBRATES THE VIBRANT DIVERSITY OF HUMAN CULTURE. THE PARALLELS BETWEEN THE BIODIVERSITY OF THE PLANET AND ITS CULTURAL DIVERSITY ARE VERY CLEAR. OUR ETHNODIVERSITY, OUR ‘ETHNOSPHERE’, MUST ALSO BE PROTECTED AND PRESERVED FOREVER.