April 2010
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Who are Monir, Rajun and Veena? →
At the heart of Omission is an immigrant Bengali family who have no one other than each other. Each is utterly reliant on the other, for income, for comfort, and for hope of a better future. Their characters have been moulded by the social norms of another country and are now put under immense…
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Reference: Gus Van Sant (dps: Savides, Doyle) →
The quieter films of Gus Van Sant are key references for Omission. Van Sant’s method is is symphonic: there is a slow accumulation of simple details which shift and accrue, bond and towards a climactic crescendo and then entropy and separate slowly at the end. This languid, steady tempo…
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Reference: Michelangelo Antonioni (dps: Scavarda,...
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Antonioni as a visual psychologist. He and his DPs architect frames which so effectively show you the internal dynamics of a character you wonder if any words should ever be spoken in a film. His films communicate a tone and a feeling that would be clumsy if not impossible to express in ways other than to just show them visually and aurally.
The final scene of...
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Omission Film: What Were These People Thinking?! →
Filmmaking is all encompassing. It combines (cobbles together?) a number of different arts into a final visual, aural, temporal whole. A script is only the starting point for the team. It’s a sign that the work is only beginning. Below are some of the ideas we currently believe in for Omission.
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Pedro Costa Interview in EYE WEEKLY →
Do you see your work as a cross between sociological study and narrative film? It’s that special moment when true and false don’t matter. You have to be true in other ways. The relation between people has to be true. I can tell you that a lot of things that Varda says and does are not true. I’ll never say what and when. Withholding it amuses me.
How does that play to your audience? ...
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Omission Film: How long does a 'short' film take... →
To schedule a film, you need a complete script. The script is the Word. Every bit of planning you do is founded on top of the it. Planning a film involves going over the script with a microscope, carefully picking out the actors, locations, the props, the vehicles and countess other things that…