Ananya Shankar
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just went strawberry picking!
creative writing 209
just went strawberry picking!
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Roots
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#thirdvoice vimeo.com/1219358064?f... petal in the pavement (thanks ariana grande for the caption inspo:))
#thirdvoice vimeo.com/1219358064?f... petal in the pavement (thanks ariana grande for the caption inspo:))
Roots
This is "Roots" by Ananya Shankar on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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August 18, 2026 at 9:54 PM
#thirdvoice vimeo.com/1219358064?f... petal in the pavement (thanks ariana grande for the caption inspo:))
#hwa7 #209breakdances M: my project may involve dancing
August 10, 2026 at 2:41 AM
#hwa7 #209breakdances M: my project may involve dancing
#hwa7 #pattyin209 surprise yourself!! as a careful and purposeful creative, this makes me nervous but excited 40:15
August 10, 2026 at 2:40 AM
#hwa7 #pattyin209 surprise yourself!! as a careful and purposeful creative, this makes me nervous but excited 40:15
#hwa7 #pattyin209 who is the viewer and who is the performer?? 23:07 getting in between the screen and the audience, disrupting the passive viewing process!
August 10, 2026 at 2:35 AM
#hwa7 #pattyin209 who is the viewer and who is the performer?? 23:07 getting in between the screen and the audience, disrupting the passive viewing process!
#hwa7 #pattyin209 characters living with you!! living alongside with the characters means imbibing their character development and shifting worldview as well (can't ss but timestamp around 16:44)
August 10, 2026 at 2:30 AM
#hwa7 #pattyin209 characters living with you!! living alongside with the characters means imbibing their character development and shifting worldview as well (can't ss but timestamp around 16:44)
#hwa7 #pattyin209 fishtank revealed as domestic space proxy, i love that idea so much, makes so much sense
August 10, 2026 at 2:22 AM
#hwa7 #pattyin209 fishtank revealed as domestic space proxy, i love that idea so much, makes so much sense
#hwa7 #pattyin209 i love getting a behind the scenes on this creative process because it felt so intentionally unintentional as a viewer
August 10, 2026 at 2:21 AM
#hwa7 #pattyin209 i love getting a behind the scenes on this creative process because it felt so intentionally unintentional as a viewer
#painteddreams so much of womens' missed life is papered on tapestries, sown beautifully into clothes. the free and colorful flowers are free in the scope of art, but their artists are not
August 10, 2026 at 2:03 AM
#painteddreams so much of womens' missed life is papered on tapestries, sown beautifully into clothes. the free and colorful flowers are free in the scope of art, but their artists are not
#painteddreams rituals' second function: imprinting world views- confirmation bias for the masses!
August 10, 2026 at 2:00 AM
#painteddreams rituals' second function: imprinting world views- confirmation bias for the masses!
#painteddreams this visual along with the help of the balloon offers a live reaction that soaps usually don't allow into their mini reality of the nuclear family
August 10, 2026 at 1:50 AM
#painteddreams this visual along with the help of the balloon offers a live reaction that soaps usually don't allow into their mini reality of the nuclear family
#painteddreams the juxtaposition of the face against the balloon builds on the feeling of complete detachment from reality or a hyper reality that feels fake and confusing
August 10, 2026 at 1:47 AM
#painteddreams the juxtaposition of the face against the balloon builds on the feeling of complete detachment from reality or a hyper reality that feels fake and confusing
#painteddreams the perfume is a metaphysical tag that connects the normal world with beyond
August 10, 2026 at 1:29 AM
#painteddreams the perfume is a metaphysical tag that connects the normal world with beyond
#painteddreams this segment is so existential in that in our world's construction, simba is an empty vessel animated, literally and figuratively by so many different human bodies
August 10, 2026 at 1:18 AM
#painteddreams this segment is so existential in that in our world's construction, simba is an empty vessel animated, literally and figuratively by so many different human bodies
#painteddreams commercialization of the domestic space= magazines and mickeys in the fish tank
August 10, 2026 at 1:15 AM
#painteddreams commercialization of the domestic space= magazines and mickeys in the fish tank
#painteddreams the charmin ultra strong packs and pampers are really throwing me off- it immediately takes the protective veil of media sub-reality and exposes the capitalistic nature of the real world
August 10, 2026 at 12:57 AM
#painteddreams the charmin ultra strong packs and pampers are really throwing me off- it immediately takes the protective veil of media sub-reality and exposes the capitalistic nature of the real world
#painteddreams the feeling of BEING perceived as you watch a piece of media really speaks to its massaging nature. this was so unexpected and unwelcome but sets you up for a two-way equation with the maker, that nothing is given for free.
August 10, 2026 at 12:44 AM
#painteddreams the feeling of BEING perceived as you watch a piece of media really speaks to its massaging nature. this was so unexpected and unwelcome but sets you up for a two-way equation with the maker, that nothing is given for free.
#hwa6 #finaltweetthread the confusing, unsettling static of daily life, presented and unearthed in DLMBL is a form of anti-environment, because it doesn't allow a more system-favoring moral narrative to peep through. there is nothing moral or decisive, or convenient about this narrative.
August 5, 2026 at 9:22 PM
#hwa6 #finaltweetthread the confusing, unsettling static of daily life, presented and unearthed in DLMBL is a form of anti-environment, because it doesn't allow a more system-favoring moral narrative to peep through. there is nothing moral or decisive, or convenient about this narrative.
#hwa6 #whoisthatyou the "you", to me, is the environment. it that which dictates the "cracks" that the protagonist/author falls through. it represents the overlapping systems of violence that churn out her disturbed and unresolving narrative, product of her un-directable fear, grief, confusion
August 5, 2026 at 9:13 PM
#hwa6 #whoisthatyou the "you", to me, is the environment. it that which dictates the "cracks" that the protagonist/author falls through. it represents the overlapping systems of violence that churn out her disturbed and unresolving narrative, product of her un-directable fear, grief, confusion
#hwa6 #refusalasform to also return to my choice to distort and muffle Voice 2 during SME2, it is not by any means an ideal listening experience. the listener is left craning their neck, straining their ears to understand what is being said there.
August 5, 2026 at 9:08 PM
#hwa6 #refusalasform to also return to my choice to distort and muffle Voice 2 during SME2, it is not by any means an ideal listening experience. the listener is left craning their neck, straining their ears to understand what is being said there.
#hwa6 #voiceandattention i feel like my choice to distort the voice 2 in SME2 into one that is heard distantly, muffled, as though heard beneath the surface of water, directs the listener's attention to the wider sensory experience instead of just the plain words of Voice 1. Much like the-
August 5, 2026 at 8:57 PM
#hwa6 #voiceandattention i feel like my choice to distort the voice 2 in SME2 into one that is heard distantly, muffled, as though heard beneath the surface of water, directs the listener's attention to the wider sensory experience instead of just the plain words of Voice 1. Much like the-
#hwa6 #invisibleframe a moment that wouldn't really fit into the typical movie plot is when i doomscroll on tiktok:) it doesn't fit a moral narrative because if a movie were made about my current existence as a student, friend, emt, volunteer, etc it wouldn't have patience for "laziness" or quiet
August 5, 2026 at 8:51 PM
#hwa6 #invisibleframe a moment that wouldn't really fit into the typical movie plot is when i doomscroll on tiktok:) it doesn't fit a moral narrative because if a movie were made about my current existence as a student, friend, emt, volunteer, etc it wouldn't have patience for "laziness" or quiet
#hwa6 #ethicalstorytelling i feel like a film that does a pretty good job of ethical storytelling is the black and white film Twelve Angry Men. It sits in the complexity and circumstance surrounding what would usually be an open-and-shut case of murder, and actually opens it up to-
August 5, 2026 at 8:43 PM
#hwa6 #ethicalstorytelling i feel like a film that does a pretty good job of ethical storytelling is the black and white film Twelve Angry Men. It sits in the complexity and circumstance surrounding what would usually be an open-and-shut case of murder, and actually opens it up to-
#hwa6 #moralnarrative the harry potter films overall are an example of the moral narrative model. they quite literally assign reductive personality traits to members of each Hogwarts house, meant to increase sympathy for some characters and villainize others. this is not ethical storytelling-
August 5, 2026 at 8:17 PM
#hwa6 #moralnarrative the harry potter films overall are an example of the moral narrative model. they quite literally assign reductive personality traits to members of each Hogwarts house, meant to increase sympathy for some characters and villainize others. this is not ethical storytelling-