When the team at Andheri-based Harkat Studios was curating their 16mm Film Festival in December last year, they chanced upon a pile of found footage reels. “We usually conduct a workshop to use discarded film footage during the festival every year. But this time, it was digital. So, we began to discuss what we could do with it,” shares Michaela Talwar, co-founder, Harkat Studios. And the result of the brainstorming that followed is Filmware: earrings, tags, bracelets and pendants made using 16mm found footage “sourced from forgotten godowns across the country”.

Michaela Talwar