2020
A photograph that stayed.
Personal photograph cassette radio 2020filed later noticed by filmmaker vineeth sreenivasan
The photograph became a space
My first Blender exploration and one of my favorite photographs together resulted in my first live action film, Lahar.
Blender interior study 2023 click to preview
The space dissolved into feeling
Connection
Melodic
Warmth
Timeless
Relief
Loneliness
Ecstasy
The space became feeling
The room was dissolved into feelings warmth, loneliness, the timeless ache of an old song.
Moodboard own photographs
The story
The feeling found a story a boy, a grandfather, a green Ambassador, a radio. He named it Lahar.
Audio-visual screenplay
The story became structure scene by scene, sound beside image.
Trial shots pre-production
The space was tested, refined, and imagined before the camera rolled.
This is where everything was heading
The Film
Selected frames
Selected frames Lahar 2023
Lahar began as a photograph.
Years later,
it returned as a film.