‘Go Kochi’ shows the city’s old and unfamiliar sights in new ways
The Hindu
The video has been made for Kerala Tourism
In a little under six minutes, cinematographer/editor Sameer Sakkariya’s video ‘Go Kochi’, a promotion for Kerala tourism, shows places in the city that people living here don’t know about. Uploaded on YouTube recently and shared by several celebrities on their socials, it is clocking in views.
Intended to showcase the city as a tourist destination, the video is a love note to it. What sets the fast-paced video apart is how Sameer ‘shows’ Kochi’s familiar, much-photographed locations and also hidden gems, “I did not want to show the typical sights.” The visuals he has captured changes the way of ‘seeing’ even the familiar sights — the iconic Thoppumpady bridge at sunset, Edappally’s St. George Forane Church, Bolgatty Palace, Fort Kochi’s Chinese fishing nets and many others.
“The angles make all the difference. Something could have been photographed many times, but a different angle changes it,” he says. So much so that he has had calls asking him where some of the locations were.