Prairie Rhythms
Overview:
Prairie Rhythms focuses on the Manitoban prairie, where Ramachandran grew up, in an exploration of the artist’s mixed-race identity. As music from a Tamil film plays over flickering views of the snow-covered prairies, the landscape of Prairie Rhythms reveals multiple, overlapping connections to differing cultures, places, and notions of home.
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