People have to stay at home day after day to prevent the spread of corona. Since everyone has to spend their time at home, creative individuals taken hold of cameras to document the days in lockdown. This is especially the case for those who believe in making independent films.
Similarly, Tong-Ghor Talkies has published a series called ‘Tong-Isolation Diary’ with six short films made by six independent producers. The story of different experiences during the lockdown has come up in six short films.
From Bangladesh are producer and film organizer Debashish Majumder’s ‘Limit’, playwright Touhin Hasan’s ‘The Silent Roof’, poet-photographer and director Asma Beethe’s ‘Inside Out’, Pankaj Chowdhury Rony’s ‘Over the Window’ and Mitul Ahmed’s ‘Rugno Prithibir Barandae’. Also, among them is a short film by an Indian director. The film, produced by Joydeep Banerjee of Kolkata, titled ‘The Time and I’.
In addition to the six short films in the Tong Isolation series, there is a dance song called ‘Landscape of Soul’ made by Tong Team. Where the choreographer Juirizah Mouli has highlighted this blocked time through various dance coins. There are invocations of the beautiful world.
Commenting on the short films, Tong-Ghor Talkies founder and director Zuairijah Mou said, “Overall, coronavirus has put people in front of new realities.
Film makers are no exception. Cinema halls are closed, shooting is stopped - but these are not the biggest obstacles for independent filmmakers to make! Rather, as we have seen, obstacles teach us to think about the construction style of film or creative work. Proof of this are the six short films recently released at Tong-Ghor Talkies.”
