Dream | Short Film Nominee

Short Film Nominee November 3, 2020

Dream

By Pratik Karmakar with 6.4

experimental · Short Films · hindi

The space of dreams operates in abstraction, marked only by symbols, images and metaphors. From sounds to colours to light and shadows, all of them constitute it, allowing it no definite boundaries of anything finite. The film operates within the same framework, and the narrative comes across as deliberately withholding more than what it reveals.

After opening with a potentially triggering sound of a woman's weeping, it moves ahead to seemingly unrelated images, compelling the viewer to make their own sense of the events unfolding before them. However, despite a zealous and notable attempt to share its intentions, the narrative could have perhaps benefited from some amount of lucidity that would have, in turn, allowed the audience a little more coherence about its message.
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