Crimson.mpg

Crimson is not a film, its visual poetry. The poet's interpretation of an adolescent girl's mind through the abstract and reality.
It tells the story of girl with conflicted emotions. Confused between love and lust. Love that transcends the norms of gender. It's not a question of love itself but of the mind's conflict at societal norms and a break away from it. Poetry is the moving factor of the film along with jarring visions of the protagonists own way of looking at her life. The two loves of her life are oblivious at her confusion and each tries to create a space and tries to give her love but each leaves her in further depths of confusion and the inability to confront her own self or them.

Crimson signifies the color of her heart, her mind and her blood. A resonance of the color red which is associated with love, lust and friendship.


Screenings and Mentions:

Nigah Queerfest, Delhi, 2008
The YP Foundation Butterfly Project Film Series- Breaking Stereotypes, Delhi, 2008
Siddharth Gautam Film Festival, Kolkata, 2009
The Seagull Open House, Kolkata, 2009
Selected from India for Pride Library Archive, University of Western Ontario, Canada, 2009
'Different Hues' (Film and Film Maker Review carried out) Indian Express, 07 August 2009
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/different-hues/345772/

Category:

Film & Animation

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• rohit k dasgupta
• India
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• lesbian
• bisexual
• poetry