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Zak Forsman

01-14-2009, 05:30 PM

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Zak Forsman

01-14-2009, 05:30 PM

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Zak Forsman

01-14-2009, 05:31 PM

reserved thrice.

Stephen Mick

01-14-2009, 05:36 PM

Zak, you're such a slacker.

Mark Harris

01-14-2009, 05:58 PM

All right, I'm dropping out, can I just have one of yours?

Jeff Anderson

01-14-2009, 05:58 PM

sweet. as always looking forward to it.

Michael Anthony Horrigan

01-14-2009, 06:02 PM

All right, I'm dropping out, can I just have one of yours?LOL!
Glad mine is going to be exhibition. I'll have to make it twelve minutes long just to make me feel like I didn't slack off. :)

alex whitmer

01-14-2009, 08:14 PM

try not to sh*t your pants, but SABI PICTURES has a second short film to enter into LossFest

Not that I have a proclivity to dump in my shorts, but I just might make an exception here.

Looking forward to it (the film I mean).

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Robbie Comeau

01-14-2009, 08:37 PM

Is it possible for both your films to place?

So, the same filmmaker winning with both films?

Robbie

Drew Ott

01-14-2009, 08:38 PM

Yes Robbie. It's probable that Forsman will take 1st 2nd and 3rd.

Chris Messineo

01-14-2009, 08:41 PM

This is very cool. Of course if you enter a third - that's just getting greedy. :)

alex whitmer

01-14-2009, 08:44 PM

First is already spoken for :). Sorry Zak!

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Zak Forsman

01-14-2009, 08:51 PM

I didn't direct this one. but SABI did produce it. the director is SABI PICTURES's co-founder KEVIN K. SHAH who also wrote and directed WHITE KNUCKLES (http://sabipictures.com/whiteknuckles). he'll be on here soon to talk about the project and share some location footage, screenshots, etc.

stinkpot

01-14-2009, 09:48 PM

Spreadin' some love in your thread. Can't wait to check out all yer films!

:beer:

Rodney V. Smith

01-15-2009, 07:50 PM

Dammit Zak! Leave some room for the rest of us. There are only 3 top slots!

Slacker.

Rodney V. Smith

01-15-2009, 07:51 PM

Great, now I'm off to write another one so I don't feel like a COMPLETE slacker.

Dustin R. Rogan

01-15-2009, 09:55 PM

you are a complete slacker

Rogan

kevinkshah

01-16-2009, 05:36 AM

Introducing Surya Chandra and Arjun A. Chandra

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Mark Harris

01-16-2009, 05:56 AM

Welcome Kevin!

MDCFILMS

01-16-2009, 06:36 PM

Duuuuude. It's going to be sooo goooood! I'm looking forward ZAK and KEVIN BUDS. Zak, when we meeting Kevin?

Michael

alex whitmer

01-18-2009, 12:14 AM

That looks like the Himalayan foothills.

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GoodLuck

01-18-2009, 11:53 PM

sweet poster!

kevinkshah

01-19-2009, 08:23 PM

Welcome Kevin!

Thank you Mark - Can't wait to see what's Brewing for your LossFest entry -

Kev

kevinkshah

01-19-2009, 08:25 PM

Hi Michael - nice to meet you & I'm looking forward to seeing your work -

Duuuuude. It's going to be sooo goooood! I'm looking forward ZAK and KEVIN BUDS. Zak, when we meeting Kevin?

Michael

kevinkshah

01-19-2009, 08:27 PM

It does a bit - there are mountains behind those clouds (Mt. Cook, actually)...

We never got to see them as the clouds never rolled back further than the moment of that picture / day of shooting.

Kev

That looks like the Himalayan foothills.

a

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alex whitmer

01-19-2009, 10:30 PM

Mt. Cook! Isn't that in New Zealand?

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Zak Forsman

01-19-2009, 10:44 PM

Mt. Cook! Isn't that in New Zealand?

mmmmm..... could be......... :)

kevinkshah

01-25-2009, 12:34 AM

This is a page from the Journal Surya kept during production:

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LAKE ROTOROA: SANDFLIES

Today we turned off Route 6 at Kohatu, on the way to Paparoa. There was a lake there that Arjun and I visited, we had a picnic there of some sort – nothing of much consequence apparently (as I don't remember what happened there).

The view when we arrived after about 10 km of stones and gravel was peaceful. While they set up, I walked along the bank of the lake, then stood in water up to my ankles for as long as I could. The glacier water fed into the lake somewhere in the distance, and as hot as it was, the water still made my feet numb. It was a good stop on a long drive. I tried to think of Arjun, of what might have happened here. Nothing.

I don’t know why he wanted me to come to this lake again, but after about 10 minutes I had enough and got back in the car. It wasn’t emotion or frustration, or anger that got to me – it was the sandflies. The females are vicious, and I was bitten in about a dozen places. I had to leave. I never even opened the box.

I’m already regretting making this trip and I don't know how long this will last.

--Surya

kevinkshah

01-30-2009, 12:31 AM

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DECEMBER 13

I don't see this point of this, I feel like I'm wasting everyone's time by being here. It doesn't make any sense to me - why he even wanted me to come all the way across the Pacific for this. What memories did he want me to relive here? I haven't felt a thing.

We shot by a seal colony along the coast near Wall Island. There was a bridge path there and they followed me to the top over looking the ocean. It was so cold. I stood there for a while after the sun had set, looking at the family of seals below as they shot. The family of seals were living on a crevasse of rock, the bashing of a constant sea spray around them. The tide was here. One of the smaller seals was sleeping on some broken branches and a bed of moss. It was so dark, everything was purple. I knew somewhere down the road, in another life, i would dream about this vision of a family on the precipice - but for the moment - I just put the box down and blinked. Maybe tomorrow's shoot will prove more exciting than today.

Surya

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jasonthewho

01-30-2009, 03:02 AM

Interesting...

Am I right to assume these are from a character's perspective?

Or is it actually the actress?

kevinkshah

02-10-2009, 11:40 PM

you are right to assume

it is actually

Interesting...

Am I right to assume these are from a character's perspective?

Or is it actually the actress?

kevinkshah

02-10-2009, 11:42 PM

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Dust Request

Day 6

Moerecki Boulders Beach

I felt his presence around me today,
I stopped to say a prayer by boulders
that were formed like a pearl forms in the mouth of a shell
in a deep ocean.

They felt ancient – these boulders, and it occurred to me that I’ve never felt anything for rocks either way in my entire life.

I felt sick for a moment while I was praying,
I turned and could see them shooting me with their camera.
I had forgotten about them, but I kept them in my periphery – it was as if not making eye contact would make it seem like they weren’t there.

It’s been 6 days, and the last 2, I asked them to leave me completely alone. It’s their film, but this is my husband.

I finished the prayer. When they called out “Cut” I took a moment to be by myself, climbing on top of the largest roundest rock I could find – feeling this little grey ball sitting on top of this great big blue ball spinning the sun out of sight.

I was thinking of you Arjun, and thinking of you laughing at me from wherever you are now. I was thinking of the way your skin felt when you were dead, and how peaceful you finally were once you had left your body.

Images of those boulders sit heavy in my heart with these thoughts of you.
If you were around me in that moment by the boulder –
maybe you felt my prayer, and know what I’m feeling right now.

Surya

Herman Witkam

02-11-2009, 08:28 AM

Kevin,

I'm looking forward to seeing this - The location shots are great!

mattspat

02-11-2009, 08:49 AM

Yeah. Wow. The colouring on that beach shot is awesome. Where is that beach? It's really nice.

Sprocketboy

02-11-2009, 04:48 PM

Awesome location! Is this really being shot in New Zealand? Sweet.

mattspat

02-11-2009, 04:57 PM

yeah I have been to New Zealand once and its the most beautiful place out of anywhere I have traveled. Can't wait to see the scenery in this one! AND everything else about the film too of course!

J. Erik Reese

02-11-2009, 05:59 PM

Kevin,

The photography is amazing! I love the screen shots. I can't wait to see the finished project!

kevinkshah

02-12-2009, 12:13 AM

Messing around as Loss Fest continues...

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kevinkshah

02-14-2009, 11:56 AM

Thanks herman & all -

Yeah, this is in New Zealand, on the south island at Moerecki Boulders Beach. If you've been there, you know how it feels there (ancient & like you're on a set... in our case we were). I feel very lucky that I got to shoot all of my loss-fest entry in NZ.

Apparently these rocks are millions of years old, which was interesting because you could just come in with a pick-up truck and take one of these things (which probably would have happened if we weren't in New Zealand).

We only got to shoot there a little while before the sun went down, but as it was going down the whole place was bathed in a purple light. It happened just after these shots, Surya let us follow her around a bit.

Most of New Zealand is conducive for shooting, but as some of you know - it's the South Island that is really incredible. On this day it was truly beautiful there.

Producer's note: No bathrooms, which isn't practical for shooting. We had to use Surya's RV. Making a mental note for the next time shooting there...

Kevin

Mark Harris

02-14-2009, 12:07 PM

Nice, looking forward to seeing this, Kevin.

kevinkshah

02-20-2009, 02:22 PM

Thanks Mark -

I have some journal entries from Arjun too, but I'm still going through all this material from Surya.

Nice, looking forward to seeing this, Kevin.

kevinkshah

02-20-2009, 02:24 PM

P.S. SCREENSHOTS coming soon! wow, we're getting closer

kevinkshah

02-20-2009, 10:13 PM

DAY 8
DOUBTFUL SOUND.

We drove on a bus for 1 hour up a road that led over the mountain into the Fjordlands. It was a break from the sandflies, and it was quiet. I sat in the back, looking backwards at the rainforest as it disappeared. They didn’t feel like shooting today, so Kevin let me borrow his Flip Mino, and this is what I shot:

[Surya’s VIDEO coming soon]

Surya
From the Journal of Surya Chandra.

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I don’t know where this journey will end, but somehow you think it will be beside you.
But coming this far, I know that I feel you are near me, and that you have been on this journey, but I know your body is dead and cremated and I cannot hear your breath. You are not here.

Or maybe you are like the surya [sun], when eclipsed by the moon. You exist. Your atma burning brightly but behind a mask of invisible darkness. Like you were in life.

Perhaps, God willing, you will reappear to me at the end of this journey. Or perhaps I will come to learn that it will only be when the horizon of death becomes visible for us all. I have come this far, Arjun.

But as you have asked in your Last Will and Testament, now I travel by water - further into the Fjordlands.

mattspat

02-21-2009, 12:55 AM

Alright Kevin...That's it. I am packing up and moving to New Zealand. That is such an incredible view. Can't wait to see how the film turns out.

Sprocketboy

02-21-2009, 07:11 AM

Connecticut is quickly losing its charm.

mattspat

02-21-2009, 03:21 PM

What is the market like for film in New Zealand?

kevinkshah

02-21-2009, 09:19 PM

i feel that all too often (packing up and heading to NZ)! thanks for the notes Matt!

Alright Kevin...That's it. I am packing up and moving to New Zealand. That is such an incredible view. Can't wait to see how the film turns out.

kevinkshah

02-21-2009, 10:21 PM

Connecticut must have its cinematic highlights?

Connecticut is quickly losing its charm.

Sprocketboy

02-22-2009, 07:08 PM

Connecticut must have its cinematic highlights?

Wife swapping in New Canaan. I suppose it does.:)

kevinkshah

02-25-2009, 02:38 AM

SCREEN-SHOT SELECTS FROM DUST REQUEST - a film by sabi

starring SURYA CHANDRA & ARJUN CHANDRA

(OFFICIAL ENTRY - LOSSFEST 2009)

I held onto these for too long. This is just a taste - and doesn't give much away... Enjoy!

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Zak Forsman

02-25-2009, 02:47 AM

Wife swapping in New Canaan. I suppose it does.:)

is that an ice storm ref? nice one.

jasonthewho

02-25-2009, 02:47 AM

Beautiful grabs!

kevinkshah

02-25-2009, 02:48 AM

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kevinkshah

02-25-2009, 02:48 AM

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kevinkshah

02-25-2009, 02:49 AM

whew. that's it for now

Simon Höfer

02-25-2009, 03:47 AM

Looking great man!

Mark Harris

02-25-2009, 05:33 AM

Nice Kevin, glad to see it coming together. Grabs look good.

Michael Anthony Horrigan

02-25-2009, 06:43 AM

Nice! Some really beautiful scenery. :thumbup:

Will Clegg

02-25-2009, 07:54 AM

Those grabs are beautiful, Kevin. Looking forward to seeing more.

kevinkshah

03-04-2009, 02:26 AM

thanks guys, now if I can just finish the film... sound is proving to be extremely difficult. I'm drawing from our sound library as needed, but I need more time. I wish I could go back to these locations and get some more sound. That's always the case. In a related note, tickets to NZ are $700

Tim Joy

03-07-2009, 10:39 AM

It looks great. How is the audio going?

Zak Forsman

03-07-2009, 08:26 PM

just talked to kevin, who is cmpleting his entry in a philadelphia hotel room. he just finished mixing the sound and I sent him a prores copy of the sabi pictures logo to include.

kevinkshah

03-08-2009, 06:07 PM

just finished...

wesley

03-10-2009, 08:57 AM

wow those are some amazing locations, too bad the quality of the compression wasn't optimal. As far as the story goes it felt it was a little too long. But the images and great low key sound choices made it interesting all the way through.

warau

03-10-2009, 08:59 AM

Just beautiful images... I liked the mood set by the music as well.

vnguyen972

03-10-2009, 09:53 AM

Yeah I felt a bit too long too... but the locations are beautiful...

Will Clegg

03-10-2009, 10:23 AM

This was extraordinarily interesting and unexpected. I'm honestly not sure at all if this was a work of fiction or not (but I sorta think that's how you wanted me to respond...).

I have to agree with some others that it felt a tad long. I suppose I didn't need the repetition of some shots towards the end. I'm lukewarm on some of the effects at the end too.

I think I need to watch this one again. That's a very good thing.

Richard J. Johnson

03-10-2009, 10:49 AM

Locations were great. A lot of it was pixelated on my end. could just be the download. any way cool film and I dug the story.

lordambrai

03-10-2009, 01:50 PM

Very nice camera work. I couldn't believe those were gotten with an HV20. It was a tad long, but everything worked together seamlessly.

kevinkshah

03-10-2009, 02:29 PM

I'm wondering if anyone got what happened at the end (if you were able to make it...)? Did you see the ghost?

Thanks for all the great responses, and for checking out the film. The compression on a location film like this is a heartbreaker. You should see this thing in 1080 HD. Actually, I'll try to post an HD version.

Running time: Yeah, six minutes is a long time for a short like this. Thanks for bearing with it. Hopefully you saw the ghost at the end. For those of you that don't want to watch the whole film,

I have a short version shot from the ghost's perspective of Surya's trip (that doesn't duplicate any shots and is 2 minutes long).

It move's really fast, and it was shot with a Flip.

I'll try to post that too.

Oh, also, you may be interested in the Last Will and Testament that Arjun wrote. I'll try to get that up as well. Thanks for your patience and for your continued comments!

Kev

lawriejaffa

03-10-2009, 04:55 PM

Yes this is a very beautiful and spiritual short film - congratulations gents. It is especially impressive that this was shot on the humble hv20!

Mark Harris

03-10-2009, 05:20 PM

Well, you get the Aetus award for best scenery. :)

I'd agree with some that you could afford to trim some fat out of this and get to it more quickly. Once it got where it was going, I dug it, but honestly at about 4 min, I started scrubbing the timeline to get there.

And I guess I am in the minority from what others say, but man I wish you had a big camera for this. They always say the camera doesn't matter. In this case, it would have mattered.

This isn't a knock on the filmmaking, but the quality of the video compared to the images was stark to me. I think even a D90 would have given you more out of the scenery due to the glass. But it was hard to lose myself in those images the way i think I should have been able to.

And it might be compression, but for what I'm seeing, I don't know. I'm watching these all on my 32" 1080p monitor.

I think you spend WAY too much time looking at the back of her head, the side of her head, her hair, basically everything but her FACE. The eyes are the window to the soul. There is no door to the soul in the back of the head. I say this because what's important about this is how it affects her. And I don't get it when I am constantly looking at the back of her head.

Last thing, the effects at the end. I'm struggling with this as well in mine. I understand what you're looking to do, but compared to the tranquil and serious nature of the rest of the film, those sounds and visuals you chose feel much more at home in a genre horror film, than in this one. Like I said, I am struggling with the same thing in mine, not wanting it to feel hackish, and trying to come up with something semi-original, or more at home with the tone of the piece. It might be worth your time to look a little harder at those effects. I'm experimenting with wind, waves, all kinds of things besides those digital "whooshses." Same for the visual. I'm trying to avoid anything but color in mine. Maybe there's something more subtle to be done in yours? More in line with the tone of the film?

Sorry to be so nit-picky, but I know you're were one of the filmmaking super-men SABI breeds in their top-secret lab, so felt compelled not to let you off the hook for anything :) Just wait till I get my hands on Forsman.

Zak Forsman

03-10-2009, 05:29 PM

Just wait till I get my hands on Forsman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afgTFViMDwk

Lawsuit_Boy

03-10-2009, 06:13 PM

I must say, I really admire what this film set out to do. It looks beautiful (despite the compression), it sounds great (love the pan flute oriented music), and the lead works very well.

However, I feel like this film tried to take on two many visages, tones, and techniques that it seemed uneven and loose toward the end. Also, there were moments when the aspect ratio changed (could be a simple slip or intentional...not sure what the justification for the intention would be).

But even with these little set-backs, I found it thoroughly enjoyable viewing and I would LOVE to see a more crisp HD rendering. Nice work! :beer:

Nick_Lee

03-10-2009, 09:00 PM

those locations were great! where are you from?

Zak Forsman

03-10-2009, 09:02 PM

kevin lives in los angeles, but travelled to new zealand in nov/dec and shot this short film there.

Nick_Lee

03-10-2009, 09:11 PM

kevin lives in los angeles, but travelled to new zealand in nov/dec and shot this short film there.

whoa just to film o_o?? I'm assuming he was on vacation and decided to do it on the side. haha.

Either way. It was good. I enjoyed it.

Michael Anthony Horrigan

03-10-2009, 09:19 PM

This was Gorgeous with a capital G. Very nice looking entry.

Mark, it was compression. You can clearly see compression artifacts, especially in certain scenes.

I have to agree with most of what has been said. It was a long journey.
I didn't see the ghost myself.

MAH

pia12254

03-10-2009, 09:22 PM

I concur with most of the comments thus far. Absolutely stunning visuals! I really liked the way it opened. But it did feel a little long in places.

I do like the way you have incorporated several different aspects of storytelling (the journal entries, the alternate angle from the ghost's perspective etc.). I think it is a whole other realm of "alternative storytelling" that needs to be utilized in today's media savvy environment.

Good job!

Sprocketboy

03-10-2009, 11:42 PM

This part of the world is beautiful. I've been to New Zealand... for a whole hour before taking my transfer in Auckland to Cairns, Australia. Next time, I have to spend more time there. I concur with Mark's statement about manning a better camera to capture the full majesty of the vistas. This needed to be carefully compressed because it relies so much on the imagery. I would have sacrificed two minutes to reduce the compression and get a higher data rate. There are some beautiful shots there.

Shawn Philip Nelson

03-11-2009, 12:45 AM

Ditto to pretty much all of Mark's comments (except hey wait, since when is there an 'Aetas' award? :-)

GORGEOUS scenery...except it felt like more of a random "hey, we're going to be on holiday in these awesome locations, lets shoot something", which, nothing wrong with that. At the 1 min mark I was like "oh, she needs to dump the ashes", and the movie never grew beyond that. Just a screensaver for 5 more minutes.

But whomever was operating the camera, clearly has a great eye!

singleframe

03-11-2009, 12:57 AM

yup with some of you ... beautiful scenery, well shot, but looong story.

Deklun

03-11-2009, 01:06 AM

beautiful film. I gathered that no place was suitable for spreading the ashes until the "ghost" was present and then she felt at peace, which I usually wouldn't be able to read into unless there was dialogue, but you told the story well enough visually. the only thing I didn't like was that the credits were too short and I couldn't scroll to the right place to see them, ha ha... nice work though, it was a pleasure to watch.

timbook2

03-11-2009, 02:44 AM

I must say: only because I read here I think I understood, that this was the real ash of a real dead husband of the real wife. If I would watch this film without knowing this, I would have more questions than answers ( for instance in the first scene she stands with her feet in the water and gives an obvious sign to the cameraman, to stop filming her, who then pans left into the landscape).
Its a very nice idea to accompany the wife while she fulfills the request of her husband to throw his ashes in certain places in NZ. The way its filmed, edited and presented now, its impossible to understand the reality behind the seemingly fictuous film, while its actually more a documentary?
Having lived in India I understood immediately what the box contained ( from the title) but a shot of her reading the last will ( and us looking over the shoulder) and a notion that no acting took place but that this was a real story, would probably help?

Nice landscape shots.

Brandon Rice

03-11-2009, 10:06 AM

Great shots. The story for me was a little too obvious. I kind of figured out what was going on about half-way through, and so it got a bit long for me. That having been said, it was still a very pretty, and surreal piece. Good job.

Chris Messineo

03-11-2009, 03:21 PM

Amazing locations - phenomenal colors.

The music and pacing was languorous and lovely.

This was like a beautiful poem.

I really enjoyed it.

Blaine

03-11-2009, 03:29 PM

I watched this yesterday but wanted to think about what I was going to say before responding.

Overall impression = I liked it.

It had a simple, straightforward story that unfolded beautifully. The locations were incredible.

My major complaint is that this felt MUCH LONGER than 6 minutes. There were times when it seemed to move interminably slow. I was disappointed in some of the compression, too. It stole from some of the breathtaking scenery.

The camera work was quite different from what I expected. That's neither good nor bad. I guess I was expecting Zak's style of camera work.