Category: film
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So Now What
Wow, 2017 already feels so old. Seems like yesterday when we were all happily making silent resolutions and sighing and convincing ourselves that nothing can be as bad as the year 2016. Well. A while ago a fresh bout of anxiety struck me. See, the thing with anxiety is, the more you try to ignore…
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My first lesson in hope
We were sitting – some of us almost lying down – in the garden on a chatai, soaking up the winter sun. First Step kindergarten school’s class of ’93. Our class teacher was engaged in a lively conversation with a fake parrot perched on his forearm. Every now and then, he’d touch his finger to the bird’s…
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14768 Fade in It is late at night. A dog howls somewhere into the distance. Aseem, a man in his 30s, wakes up in an old alleyway. He is wearing a brown jacket and black jeans. He stares at the starlit sky for a long time, and sighs. He walks towards an old apartment building.…
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First film!
Hello beautiful readers! We were supposed to make a Personal Documentary as part of our course. The rules were: it was to be 5 to 10 minutes long, no music was allowed and no special effects. So I just shot a bit on campus, and patched all the archival footage I had with it and…
Astha