Edgelands Productions

RITHIKHA RAJAMOHAN

I’m a writer, photographer, freelance filmmaker and producer with a background in ecology and urban planning. I’m driven by a fascination for finding the surreal in the ordinary.

My current work with the Ethereum Foundation Summer of Protocols fellowship is a series of speculative fiction stories that explore the nexus of cities and emerging collaborative technology.

My most recent short film, Sympoiesis, strings together dreamlike shots of fungi, crosswalks, roots and other awe-inspiring footage of everyday life to answer the question of where life is trying to go and what it is trying to become. The film was an official selection at the 2023 New Jersey Film Festival, a Montreal Independent Film Festival Nominee, and received an honorable mention at the Munich New Wave Short Film Festival.

I also dabble in parametric and audio-visual multimedia and am currently experimenting with combining photography with digital animatics techniques.

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SYMPOIESIS - EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM

Sympoiesis, meaning "boundaryless" or "making together" is an exploration of co-creation and an attempt to answer the question of where life is trying to go. The film is a recognition that we are as a species just one of many forms of intelligent life, each with its own entangled reasons for being. In an age of self-induced ecological, technological and social collapse, the film is also a comforting reminder that we are no more than adolescents in evolutionary time, a young and fragile species prone to making mistakes, and yet still learning, growing and striving to find its proper place in an inherently symbiotic world.

official selection at the New Jersey Film Festival, a Montreal Independent Film Festival Nominee, and recieved an honorable mention at the Munich New Wave Short Film Festival.

SHORT FILM
Director, Videographer, Editor

A PORTRAIT OF A CELL — AUDIO-RESPONSIVE MEDIA ART

Springtime and earth-time inspired parametric generative art. Created in touchdesigner.

Music: Ballad of Mr. Steak by Kishi Bashi

AUDIO-VISUAL MOTION GRAPHICS

THE MYCELIUM FUND

Science-based, story-infused research to guide the development of a new self-organizing grant funding program.

The design principles are the distillations of my conversations with scientists and field researchers to better understand how ecological networks attain, distribute and share resources. After all, nature has had 2 billion years to practice and perfect, why hsould we reinvent the wheel?

Find the interactive (in development) page here.

INTERACTIVE RESEARCH - ECOLOGICAL STORIES

SPECULATIVE FUTURES — VIDEOBYTE SERIES

A collection of mundanely surreal landscapes and scenes.

SPEC FIC / VIDEO / PHOTO

ANTHILL HACKS

AntHill is a metaphor for the world of structure and complexity that exists just beneath the surface of everything around us. Anthill Hacks is a two-week unconference located in the foothills of Devarayanadurga, Karnataka.

The event provides a space away from the usual bustle of life for people from all domains to live and build together for two-weeks. At Anthill Hacks we learn, take apart, and create; sitting together overlooking the region’s mountains, forests farms and lakes while weaving together the technological, social and ecological fabric around us.

We bring together urban and rural dwellers, the young and old, women and non-binary communities, and those with all kinds of lived and practiced experience. Anthill Hacks is where we intentionally create the space for meaningful connections to form, enabling us to better build across the many different ecosystems we inhabit in order to create technologies (in the most expansive definition of the word) for people.

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SURFRIDER FOUNDATION

‘Year in Review’ Promo Video for the Surfrider FOundation, 2019. #ProtectWhereYouPlay

VIDEOGRAPHY & EDITING

462 HALSEY COMMUNITY FARM

Many hands make light work. Capturing moments of collective agency at 462 Halsey, a community farm located in the heart of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

EVENT PHOTOGRAPHY

05 LANDSCAPES

An assorted collection of ‘scapes, from Navarro to Tumkur

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06 PORTRAITS

per·son/ˈpərs(ə)n/

Middle English: from Old French persone, from Latin persona ‘actor's mask, character in a play’, later ‘human being’.

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