Shaunak Sen
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YEAR-WISE DEVELOPMENTS
2022: Sundance Jury Prize
January 30, 2022: The Times of India
Reacting to the news, Sen told Sundance in a video put outon Twitter,“I am absolutely speechless and utterly beaming…Ihave nocliched way of sayingthisbutIcan’tthank you enough. . the film came intoexistence a large par tdue to Sundance’s support. ”
Work on the film began in 2019. Asked how the idea struckhim, Senspokeof “the grey hazy monotone laminatesour life,”the “tinydots”or black kites (cheel) which glide on the city’s skies and the “noxiousair” webreathe.
Then he star tedlooking for the protagonists. “We met the brothers: Nadeem and Saud. There was a fair bit of media work on the remarkable work theydo. Theirlife itself hadacinematic, surreal quality. They work outof a tiny derelictbasement where there is industrial decay where these magisterial yet vulnerable birds are treated. The bipolarity itself was very cinematic. That’s how we beg an,” he told TOI.
“We developed a grammar which was not a regular observational verite film… but something more poetic and lyrical to depict something real,” he said. The film was edited in Denmark.
Senexpressed deep re gret
at not being able to show the film to to his father. “2021 was the worst year of my life. Everything in the film is permeated by a sense of longing, moments of grief and engagements with questions of mortality. The film is an expressionof who you are in the most intuitive and deep senses. When one goes through a loss that shifts the very coordinates of your life, it is impossible to keep that away from what you are making,” he said.
Yet, Sen overcame his personal loss to create the film.
The Sundance citation announced by jury member Emilie Bujes said, “This poetic film delivers an urgent political story while constructing a singular and loving portrait of protagonists resisting seemingly inevitable ecological disaster – with humorous touches punctuated by unsentimental depiction of the animal kingdom. For maintaining its suspenseful ten- sion when portraying the interior struggles of its charactersandthecontradictionsin spirituality and materialism they confront, we present the Grand Jury Prize to All That Breathes. ”
