Nihaal Faizal is an artist based in Bangalore, India. In 2018, he founded the publishing house Reliable Copy and between 2013-16, he organised the project space G.159.


Recently:
Frames at 8-0-0
- Artist Grant UK
- Dummy at Bill’s PC
- RTI-1242-2021–PMR at Printed Matter
- RTI-1242-2021-PMR at les presses du réel


Contact:
nihaalfaizal@gmail.com
Photocopied Blow Out
2016 - ongoing
feature length film
31:16
in collaboration with Chinar Shah


Photocopied Blow Out presents a remade version of ‘Blow Out’, the 1981 film by Brian dePalma. To achieve this, each frame from a DVD copy of the film is printed using a photocopy machine, then re-scanned, and stitched together with the original soundtrack.

The film then functions as a remake of the original but without any alterations except to its visual surface. Featuring the same plot, the same actors, and the same sequences, Photocopied Blow Out raises questions around technological mediation, authorship, piracy, and creative labour.

The production of the film is ongoing and so far 45000 of the 155449 frames have been produced with support from GENERATOR - a cooperative art production fund from Experimenter.