Video Factory

If you look right opposite Purna Cinema at 123 Ashutosh Mukherjee Road, you’ll see where we are. Video Factory is located in a pretty busy part of Bhawanipur, so there is always the sound of horns and people talking downstairs. Our space is filled with hard drives, old cables, and a few cameras that have seen better days. We spend a lot of time sitting in front of monitors, cutting clips together or trying to fix the audio on a recording. It’s not a quiet office because someone is always playing back a video or checking a sound bite. The tea guy comes by twice a day, and that’s usually when we take our only real breaks. Being across from the cinema is funny because sometimes we see people coming out after a movie while we are still working on a project from three days ago. The curtains in here are thick to keep the glare off the screens, so we sometimes lose track of whether it’s sunny or raining outside. We don’t have a fancy reception area or anyone to answer the door. If you come by, you’ll probably find one of us with headphones on, deep into an edit. The shelves are messy with old tapes and batteries that we really should throw away. It’s a bit chaotic, but we know where everything is. This is just where we make things and try to get the timing right on every frame we touch.