The narrative deliberately leads you in a direction opposite of where it is truly headed. The story opens with a character's interaction with a record player, soon followed by his relationship with sounds around him, and the significance of each of them for him. <br><br> The plot gains more significance in a world that is now well-acquainted with the previously unencountered quiet of a lockdown. However, there awaits a realization about the protagonist's lived reality for a viewer as the story progresses. What secret lies amidst this world of records and posters of iconic musicians and bands? Play has an uplifting, positive answer for the question.

Play | Lockdown Film Challenge

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. <Br><br> 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.

Dream | Short Film Nominee

A musician finds a lot of wonderful conversations with his instruments as he is forced to be only with himself. The silence of his life is filled with the sounds of the keys and strings who are his sole companions in a room, and the short film, thus becomes an engagement with the thoughts that follow. 

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