India-specific: Join me in making a short film. Cinematographer and actors needed. Budget will be tight unless I find someone to fund this project but I will cover your basic expenses. Please read the long post if you're interested in creating something unique.
Hello everyone! I am a 26 years old engineering graduate looking to create a team for my first short film that I have written.
I am going to be completely honest and clear on my agenda here.
I am an ideological leftist and every piece of work that I have written or will write will be leftist/philosophical in nature. This does not mean that I am some kind of left wing fanatic who doesnt like people with different ideologies or have any hatred for conservative practices and traditions. I respect people for who they are and how their lives are interconnected to mine and everyone else'. I simply have an admiration for things that are progressive in nature.
I want to create something new in the Indian art sphere like how all the good arthouse directors did in their own time. My artistic influences are Terrence Malick, Michael Haneke, Peter Tscherkassky, Kamal Swaroop, Gaspar Noe, Claire Denis, Andrei Tarkovsky, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Godfrey Reggio, Giles Pontecorvo to name a few.
I have a trilogy of short films planned:
First one will be a vfx-infused short called General and explores the declining mental state of a bright upper-middle class young adult who happens to enter the accelerated path (or the end-goal) of AI. The point of this short is to show how the people who support the technocratic capitalist class are the ones who will face the consequences of it first.
Second one is called Orbital Collapse and is a "vyangyatmak" comedy about teenagers analysing the concept of romance, economy, alcohol, communication, differentiation, dialectical materialism, state machinery and a few more all with a hypocritical lens of guilty pleasure and critique.
Third one is called Simulacra and Simulation and is about a dalit and muslim duo who argue over whose god is more real and give each other a week's time to come back with proofs. Their separate yet intertwined lives are shown over this week where we (not them) come to the realisation that their lives are the farthest away from the concept of any god.
I don't have any budget for this film but I will definitely cover the travel and food for the people involved with me in this project of mine. Once the team gets made, they can choose which one they want to create first and see how it goes.
I have adobe suite and ableton so I will be editing and scoring the film on my own. Primarily I need a good cinematographer who knows what he is doing or is knowledgeable about lighting and blocking and framing. We will scout locations together, look for actors and other crew and plan shots together. We will be involved in this project unbounded by our roles but as equal contributors (so will be the actors and crew).
I am currently in Bangalore but am ready to move to Mumbai or Hyderabad or even Delhi but for the latter three you need to present a strong case because I don't want to fly all the way to these cities for nothing. I am desperate to create these shorts because I have risked a lot by entering this domain of work. I can guarantee you that the final output out of these will be really, really good. There is no doubt about that in my mind. I have researched a lot of films, genres and movements and just art in gen to reach this state of writing so be assured that you are not taking part in some delusional newbie's peronsal manias.
Sorry for the long post but I felt like I needed to cover everything so that I can get a filtered response. Thank you for reading all of it, if you did.
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