16 mm and Super-8
14 min 26 sec
2004

In by the by, Kirthi Nath explores questions of the self, memory, desire and home and how this cross-sects place and the sensual experience of a moment. Nath layers visual footage taken over years of traveling in India and Nepal, waiting in airports along the way and witnessing various shenanigans outside her mother's California apartment with quotes found on the sidewalks of San Francisco and by inspiring women artists. Adding to this textural expression is a rich sound design drawn from sounds recorded in Africa and India, and messages left on answering machines.

In many ways, the lens of transnationalism lets us explore and understand the various imprints of migration and how it has affected people. In by the by, migration is translated as a lived perspective where history, memory and place seamlessly collide and shape how one finds identity as a collection of experiences and associations.