Derezzed: At the Pakistan India Border from Khurram Siddiqi on Vimeo.

If you’ve ever been to the Wahga border that is just outside Lahore in Pakistan, you’ve seen quite a show. There’s a very famous ceremony that takes place EVERY day, where the Pakistani border guards ‘face off’ with the Indian border guards in a show of force, that is pretty choreographed in my opinion. As you can see from the video- there are tons of people who come out to ‘see’ the whole event. It’s seriously a form of entertainment in both parts of the Punjab it seems.

The thing is- there’s all this hoopla over what is pulling 2 flags down and closing 2 metal gates. But that’s the show and tell- these border guards serve tough duties for both countries.

Regardless, I love the energy of the crowds, the flags being waved, and of course- Pakistan.

I went to Wahga with some friends last year, and shot lots of pictures for this stop motion video. All of it is stop motion- only some minor color filters applied here and there.

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I’m leaving California for Pakistan on a one-way flight.

But Mike’s not done yet- we’ve got our ritual drive up and down Skyline Drive ahead of us- despite me being dead tired. 5.40 am, he shows up, yanks me out of bed while the other overqualified movers sleep away. My flight leaves at noon. This is enough time to drive down Skyline in Mike’s Nissan 350Z. The video starts at a Shell gas station on El Camino, from which the route is traced in Google Maps from, to Alice’s restaurant in Woodside, then back to 1717 Woodland Ave in East Palo Alto.

I’ve put the video’s work on pause right now because I intended to mix video and stop motion. My DV camera has stopped exporting to the laptop, so this is as far as I got with the stop motion alone. The track is what was almost on repeat the whole time- LCD Soundsystem’s “Get Innocuous” remixed by Soulwax.

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