Watch a Movie This Week, It Could Change Your Life | Nidhil Vohra | TEDxUofT Salon

Microform content (Instagram reels, RUclips shorts etc.) has perhaps come at the most ideal time for a generation which is constantly trying to escape its own perils. There has emerged a collective social inclination towards forms of entertainment which are short, captivating, gratifying, and shareable, allowing the user to unwind through a rather blissful ignorance. Vohra discusses the importance of films in these exact times where there simultaneously exists an information overload and a reluctance to access anything beyond one's own immediate interests and/or preoccupations. Referencing incidents from his own life growing up in India and later immigrating to Canada, and examining recent pop-culture phenomenons including Barbenheimer, Vohra posits that while being potent avenues of escape, films also keep audiences informed, aware, and sensitive to all that which they may be trying to escape. The result of these interactions between the turmoil within and the turmoil outside of one's own self in turn makes what Vohra calls our "dying world". A storyteller first and foremost, Nidhil Vohra is a filmmaker, author, recording artist, and student at the University of Toronto. Through his art, he aims to bring to attention not issues but lived experiences - emphasizing stories that seldom find their way into mainstream literature and films. He is extremely interested in the intersection of popular media and social mobilization, and believes that by translating scholarly research into art forms, one can begin the process of change in the masses. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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Well said and well delivered Nidhil!

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Why didn’t you use the mic’s audio for the video?