BIGGFISH / Film and Video

Unseen
Forces

A moving study of air, water and light.

Ten experimental time-lapse films across landscapes in the San Francisco Bay Area. Images by Romy Randev; original music and ambient soundscapes by Alam Khan.

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Shadowed green hills beneath a clouded sky, from Unseen Forces
Unseen Forces / a landscape in motion

The series / 10 films

Time made visible.

Play a film to hear its original soundtrack. Videos start only when you choose them; selecting another pauses the current film.

01 / CloudsClouds 011:09
02 / CloudsClouds 020:50
03 / CloudsClouds 030:58
04 / CloudsClouds 041:13
05 / CloudsClouds 050:22
06 / CloudsClouds 061:09
07 / FogFog 011:03
08 / FogFog 020:50
09 / FogFog 031:05
10 / TreesTrees 011:14
Portrait of musician Alam Khan outdoors
Alam Khan / composer and musician

The collaboration

Landscape, with a voice of its own.

Romy Randev made the time-lapse films; Alam Khan created the original music. Together, image and sound follow the changes in clouds, fog and trees.

Alam Khan

Alam is a San Francisco Bay Area sarodist, composer and producer. He began studying in the Maihar Seni Gharana under his father, Ali Akbar Khan, at age seven and performed alongside him from 1996 to 2006. His work spans Indian classical music and collaborations across genres.

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Experimental moving image

Ten short encounters with a changing landscape.

The series was originally presented as an NFT collection. These films are presented here as an archive of the collaboration rather than a sales page.