How did The Otolith Group come into being?
Anjalika: We met around 2000 – one of the things that brought us together was Chris Marker (La Jetée, Sans Soleil). When we first met we went to see all these great Chris Marker movies at the ICA. And the other thing that brought us together was Black Audio Film Collective. We both had known them ever since we were 18 or something. We were drawn together by the essay film. The opportunity arose for us to make a proposal to do a project in zero gravity. And when we started to think about making that film we called ourselves The Otolith Group based on the ideas that we explored in Otolith I (2003). The idea of the Group just gathered momentum after that and all of our different strands of research began to come under the idea of the Otolith Group. Kodwo: It was always going to be several intertwining practices and then the work somehow sits in the middle of all of that. It’s not enough just to make work after work – there are so many other things that films can do. Once Otolith I came in
