Moving Image

I made this film all by myself in quarantine but this film is not about my quarantine experience. It’s more about my filmmaking journey and the struggles I faced while moving from one country to another. It’s about how my passion for film started and how it led to new experiences and opportunities but also how it made me make some of the biggest sacrifices of my entire life. The main theme is to portray visually what it’s like to be an artist and the difficulties that come with it. I convey this by telling my own story and the struggles I faced.

Art making during quarantine was one of the things that helped keep me sane. Having a project that you can work on with people, put free time into, and get to see through to completion was great to break up the monotony of the day. The main idea of this film was to poke fun at the antiquated arguments some museums use to justify keeping artifacts that they'd acquired in questionable manners. I used film to make this point because through dialogue and visual comedy I can both very clearly illustrate my point as well as make the museums look silly.

Art-making during quarantine has been difficult especially because filmmaking is a collaborative art form. Due to covid restrictions, it has been harder to create films but this did challenge me to get creative in filming with limited resources. This piece, Trapped, is directed towards my quarantine experience as the protagonist is isolated and trapped in their own home. With the constant cycle of quarantine life the protagonist dissociates into another realm. The main idea of this film is to document how I felt during Quarantine, and hopefully reach out to those who felt the same to let them know that they are not alone. Filmmaking is a medium where people can watch and relate to the protagonist’s environment. I was able to get my neighbor over to be the actor in this film and I am so happy with the final results because I was fully able to put my imagination and experiences into this film.