Country: Sri Lanka, United States
Year: 2020
Language: No Dialogue
Subtitles: No Subtitle
Runtime: 15 mins.
In a small and remote hamlet, a young girl develops a curious friendship with a spirit who lives in an abandoned house. This film was shot in my mother's village in Southern Sri Lanka—shortly after the civil war in 2010. Collaboratively developed with members of my family there, a narrative was improvised around an investigation into my mother's interactions with spirits in the community during her childhood. Landing somewhere between horror fiction and “spectral” ethnography, the film describes a population reeling from devastations of the past, where distinctions between the living and the dead are thinning.
DIRECTOR
Rajee Samarasinghe
Rajee Samarasinghe is a filmmaker born and raised in Sri Lanka. He received his BFA from UCSD and his MFA from CalArts. Rajee is currently working on his debut feature, Your touch makes others invisible, the project received a Sundance Documentary Fund Grant and was invited to Berlinale Talents' Doc Station.
Director:
Rajee Samarasinghe
Cast
Shalani Dilasha, Malka Malshani, Charlis Gamage, Malisha Kavindi, Lanka Rajapaksa
Cinematography:
Rajee Samarasinghe
Production:
Rajee Samarasinghe, Milani Samarasinghe, Delini Malka Samarasinghe
Screenplay:
Rajee Samarasinghe
Editing:
Rajee Samarasinghe
Music:
Rajee Samarasinghe
Sound:
Rajee Samarasinghe, Christina C Nguyen
Art Direction:
Rajee Samarasinghe
contacto: envythemonster@gmail.com
Screenings
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Irapuato
22.9.2020
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Cinemex Sala 10 Plaza Jacarandas 