The documentary made by Nainisha Dedhia, an undergraduate student of NID's film and video design department aims at bringing in light the journey of waste, where it comes from and where exactly it goes once it is tossed in the bin.
A film on 'Pirana', largest dumping site of Ahmedabad, by a student of National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad has made it to three international film festivals. The documentary made by Nainisha Dedhia, an undergraduate student of NID's film and video design department aims at bringing in light the journey of waste, where it comes from and where exactly it goes once it is tossed in the bin. Interestingly, it is a silent film that does not portray just the problem but eventually puts the onus on the viewer to be responsible for all the dump.
Sharing her experience, Nainisha, who had to go alone to the dumpsite every day to shoot found quite challenging to get the people residing and working at the dumpsite to talk. "Every year while many students think of making a film on Pirana, the stench of the place makes most of them drop the idea. The stench did affect me as well but that is what I wanted to portray. The film shows visuals including smoke, dogs which are a menace there, lives of people, muddy water, etc and eventually it ends when I show the contrast of a shopping mall, grocery shops, etc."
Her film has been screened at six film festivals including National Short Film Festival, Dadasaheb Phalke International film festival, Feminist Border Arts Film festival, CinemAmbient Film festival and The Lift Off Sessions.
"Waste is an interesting concept. Out of all the activities that we as humans participate in, generating waste might be the strangest of them all. However, we are also pretty smart and have implemented easy ways to get rid of the waste and yet every piece of plastic ever created still exists in some form or the other. It lives within us, by us and all around us. My film also talks about how do we avoid waste in an age of excess consumption and a mindset of 'convenience at all cost."
Film on menstruation wins best editing at NSFF:
Another NID students film 'Stains' has won the best editing in the recently concluded 8th National Short Film Festival organised by National Film Archive of India.
Stains, made by Rhea Mathew is a short fiction film that revolves around a couple from different cultural backgrounds who are spending the weekend with the man's mother on the pretest of Onam. Here the woman starts menstruating and stains her bed sheets. Her boyfriend's mother has an extreme and conservative reaction to this. The event and her boyfriend failing to stand up for her and in turn expecting her to adjust put the woman in a space of conflict. The film is an attempt to examine the portrayal of menstrual blood through the eyes of the people who bleed, the people who assign discriminatory connotations to this blood and in turn the medium of film and how it is used to represent the blood and the relationships that surround it. It also looks at an urban relationship that struggles to exist in the tussle between individuality and tradition where a woman attempts to define and reclaim her autonomy.
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