EGO NIDRA
2022 My Mama Told me I’m Experimental, Saigon Experimental Film Festival, Hanoi, Vietnam
2022 Best Experimental Short, CIFF Cambio International Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
2022 Official Selection, GRRL HAUS CINEMA, Loophole, Berlin, Germany
2021 Offical Selection, TACTŪS Athens Digital Art Festival, Museum of Modern Greek Culture Athens, Greece
Ego Nidra is an experiential, experimental audiovisual art film which acts as a sort of visual guide as viewers embark on a journey to ultimately achieve ‘Ego Nidra’. Nidra being the Sanskrit word translating literally to ‘sleep’, viewers are encouraged to collectively put their ego's to rest, allowing for deeper self-examination of how their ego impacts daily life.
Approached as a sort of satire on guided meditation, Ego Nidra’s ‘guides’ are the voices of 6 different ‘women’, and/or, google translate ‘bots’ speaking english with accents ranging from The US, Norway, India, Mexico, France, and Germany. Here we speculate a future where ‘spiritual leaders’ don’t actually have a spirit, yet ‘belong’ to actual cultures. By replacing a human voice with a female robot Ego Nidra also questions the role of the ego amongst spiritual leaders themselves, which who are we kidding— are predominately male. As illustrated in the character of Bhagwan, or Osho, in the popular netflix series Wild Wild Country even spiritual leaders are not free from getting caught up in power, greed, and self importance.
