It is said that Banaras is one of the oldest cities in India, and is the one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities by humans. It is referred to as the City of Lights and often cited as the “holiest” city in all of India, being situated on the banks of the river Ganges. My mother grew up in Banaras. My childhood summers were spent running through the mazes of alleyways from temple to temple en route to the ghats along the ganga.

False Prophets is a meditation about how corporate culture is slowly overtaking old world traditions. Our constant need for connectivity and information has driven us to be more dependent upon those organizations which deliver content to us on a 24-hour a day cycle. Most of us in the western world have forgotten what it was like before broadcasting every detail of our personal lives outward to a global audience. Although technological empowerment is a positive sign of progress, sometimes we take the pitfalls of constant expression a bit too seriously. We, including those working for the advertising and media industries, are all guinea pigs in a process where we are learning how to deal with more information exchange than ever.

The world, as I have come to embrace it, does contain a juxtaposition of places where you can walk the streets of an Indian market untouched by digital culture. A place where cows roam freely and can be found in the crevices of back alley ways. We walked through Thateri Bazaar to Panchganga Ghat on the river and shot the video while en route. No stylists. No makeup crew. No lighting. Just life in the moment.

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