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Everyday Life in India (2024)


Project Researcher: RRA
Everyday Life in India is part of an ongoing research project by RRA that investigates the quiet power of the ordinary. Filmed over the course of one month in Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Goa, and Baroda, this edition explores Northwest India through the lens of everyday encounters—those subtle, often overlooked moments that together form the rhythm of a place.

Using only a handheld phone camera, short, unedited video fragments—ranging from 7 to 20 seconds—capture stillness, ambient sound, and spontaneous movement. Each frame is held steady, allowing the viewer to slow down and witness life as it unfolds without interference. There are no added effects, no narration—only the act of watching and listening. The result is an accumulation of micro-moments that, collectively, offer a sensory and emotional map of daily life.

The project asks: what becomes visible when we stop trying to make something extraordinary? What emerges when we approach a place not as tourists or documentarians, but as quiet observers, aware of the fleeting and beautiful nuances of the everyday?

Everyday Life is an ongoing methodology that has traveled across Germany, the Netherlands, and Egypt. It is rooted in RRA’s commitment to subtlety, locality, and respect for the real. By framing the banal as worthy of attention, the project resists spectacle and instead proposes stillness and repetition as forms of research and recognition.

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