Musings of an Idiot

PEACE

One of the randomest things happened and I broke a 3 year promise to myself - I was talking to Lance about future projects (even though I am taking time off projects) and he mentioned that he had about 12 minutes worth of 16mm film stock and 2 16mm cameras. That got me thinking and I was racking my head about the possibility of making a short film on 16mm film - a short film in this case being really short with a maximum time limit of 3 minutes as that would give us the flexibility to shoot with a ratio of 1:4 (which is insane - trust me on that one). I racked my brains about for a short film that would still be a good human story despite the massive restrictions we had. I asked a couple of people if they could write something but when things came to nothing I decided that I probably had to do something about it.

It dawned on me that some of the short stories written by Uday uncle are very cinematic, touching and at the same time very human. So I went about reading some really short short stories from the book 'Short Shorts, Long Shots' which I had co-translated with Bob chachaji [Robert A Hueckstedt] when I was in India and I found 'Peace' - it is this wonderful short story that takes you by surprise. I promptly emailed both Uday uncle and Bob chachaji and both of them gave me a go-ahead to make the short film. I sat down and wrote the script - which is all of 2 pages long but has so much going on within those 2 pages - to the point where I think making this short will require a lot of attention to details to make it authentic and a long pre-production period. So yeah - I am happy that I broke my vow because I did it for something that is worth it. I am excited and have started assembling the jigsaw puzzle of a pre-production into it's normal state. This will be very very challenging but fun at the same time.

Peace out,
Amit

Labels: Books, Short film

posted by Amit @ 10:07 PM