Moon and a Roll

On the one hand she faced numerous such problems for the ten-minute film but on the other hand,her documentary ‘Ate Roll’,which she made during the same period,was comparatively a much more easier affair. However,both her films have made it to the international festivals. While ‘Moon Stars Lovers’ will feature in the competition section at the Meters International Film Festival (MIFF) in Tver,Russia in October,the documentary ‘Ate Roll’ will be screened at the International Festival of New Films (IFNF) in Croatia in September.

MIFF is a short film festival that showcases works of the young movie directors and IFNF aims to attract new experimental,personal and radical films from across the globe,with no barriers of genres,budgets and time frames.

‘Moon Stars Lovers’,says Sadana,is inspired by the style of Czech filmmaker Vera Chytilov. “Her movies have had a deep impact on the way I have looked at filmmaking,” says Sadana. The film is about a man called Nezim,a merchant who leaves his wife behind for a year with a parrot who recites four stories to keep the wife entertained. “The first of these four stories is the tale of two girls. This particular piece is a tribute to Chytilov’s 1966 film Sedmikrsky (Daisies),” says the filmmaker.

Sadana admits that adapting a script with multiple layers to its storytelling is challenging. “These films needed to be very well planned out and meticulously executed. A lot of effort has gone into designing the scenes and the complex layering in each frame,” she says. “It is important to have a clear vision about what you,as a director,want to show the audience. How they interpret it is totally different. In fact,it just shows how multiple layers of stories impact different people differently.”

The docu ‘Ate Roll’ is an experimental work inspired by the works of filmmakers like Tony Conrad,Stan Brakgae,Robert Breer and Len Lye. The movie shows people painting,scratching,stitching and dyeing strips of film and decorating them with glitter,paint and what not. “We have used a hand-cranked 35mm film projector to project these strips of film on various surfaces,from the walls of a small cafe to the floor over which people can walk,” she says.

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