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last lines
| Duration |
12 minutes 33 seconds |
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| Format |
DVD Pal |
| Performed by |
Vinay Sharma |
| Camera & Editing |
Pravash Pradhan |
| Produced by |
R. A. Jalan and Gaurang Jalan |
| Story, Script, Screenplay & Direction |
Vinay Sharma |
| Synopsis |
“Why me?” a man asks, “what good will it do to kill me?”
It gradually becomes clear that he is describing the scene of a bomb blast. He is one of the victims.He is running through the last thoughts in his head.
The scene of destruction and death becomes clear to him bit by bit. Everything is in fragments. .
He talks about the moment of death and wonders if the terrorists have reached home, are watching the scene on television- flesh, blood, fragments.
He wonders if his spirit has already left his body.
He screams for someone to notice that his eyes are open.
"I want to live" he says.
A surreal one-take film about one man who represents any man caught in today’s extended moment of terror.
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| Director’s note |
The film “last lines” tries to depict what there is no real way of depicting - the last thoughts in the mind of a dying man who cannot move or speak. Avoiding representation, the performance uses Word as Image.
The extension of time in the content of the film and the extended moment of terror in our lives today, both of these cried out for the Primal Film- a film without a Cut, because a Cut would represent an escape, suggest the possibility of an answer to the question “Why me?” – when we all know there is no answer.
The Cut happens only at the end of every life, at the beginning of the next explosion when other victims ask “Why me?” – to create a loop, a recurrence of the same question in the countless who have left and the countless who will leave not knowing the answer.
Or to appropriate some lines from Deleuze, “….there is a present of the future, a present of the present and a present of the past, all implicated in the event, rolled up in the event, and thus simultaneous and inexplicable.” (Giles Deleuze, ‘Cinema 2- The Time-Image’)
It is this implication that is inescapable in our daily lives and this present that is trapped in “last lines”.
vinay sharma
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