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May
2020
13 mins, No dialogue
Mango and Neem trees have taken over an old house standing at the edge of the street. The house, belonging to Neera and Ajit, has seen over four generations. The film takes place on a summer afternoon in their house. It’s a still, mundane day with their grand-children. Ripe mangoes sway on the tree in an unexpected rain shower. Illustration by Abhishek Mankotia
May is an attempt to reconstruct a memory into a film and present a narration of associations that occur in the process of recollection, both with inanimate objects and animated life. An auto-ethnographic reconstruction of memory, it attempts to navigate the self beyond the constructs of time, dichotomies of the present and the past, distant and close, remembered and forgotten.
Writer, Director & Editor
To watch the film, please write to me at eshwarya.grover@gmail.com