Dreamscape: Love Is Overrated For You And Me

Against the visuals of water ripples, a lovelorn heart types 바카라�Desire바카라�s d surprise f your skin ... (with an evil emoji)바카라�. Almost a decade old, Tanushree Das바카라�s directorial For You and Me unveils the desires and passion experienced by a couple in a modern, long-distance relationship. There are no dialogues and no actors, yet the short film delivers what it aims to, leaving its audience aching for their loved ones.

바카라�Ev바카라�ry time we say goodbye바카라� plays in Ella Fitzgerald바카라�s captivating voice in the beginning, tearing apart a lover바카라�s heart away from their beloved. 바카라�Ev바카라�ry time we say goodbye, I die a little. Ev바카라�ry time we say goodbye, I wonder why a little.바카라� The song of separation in the backdrop of an Asian landscape traverses to the pain in Farida Khanum바카라�s Aaj jaane ki zidd na karo.

A part of Sudarshan Shetty바카라�s Who is Asleep Who is Awake curation for the 2022 edition of the Serendipity Arts Festival, For You and Me attempts to use lens-based media to capture and contain reality of imaginations. Through the metaphors of texts and images, the film breaks down desires, imagination, distances, worlds, and dreams. Exerting the liberties of cinematic representation, the film defies the stable, structured idea of evoking emotions through people and rather chooses to connect to its audiences through objects of reminder, reminiscing, and longing.

As we often transcend from physical realities and wander off beyond the tangible materialities, the unseen protagonists in the film break beyond the boundaries that separate them by time and distance, towards the soul united by passion and expression. 바카라�I can see you reading. I can feel/touch you바카라�, they whisper to each other through the medium of messages. The film traces a couple바카라�s journey in a tech-savvy, postmodernist world that is not dictated by the logic and reasons of establishments. 바카라�One does not necessarily have to be in a state of coma to be lost from the physical structures around them,바카라� Das says.

The film is both silencing and loud in bits and pieces, like the fragments of one바카라�s soul and body. Das바카라� idea of filmmaking as a meditative practice is reflected in its visuals and audio. For You and Me takes up the task to evoke emotions in its audience in the absence of actors or faces, which Das defines as what we associate primal sentiments to.

The film relies on the brilliance of its director, cinematographer and sound and tech team to capture the essence of what objects represent. It바카라�s not necessary that we miss someone in an unadulterated way. 바카라�Sometimes even as we see our pets curled up on the same couch they last sit on before leaving, we reminisce, apparently just as our pet,바카라� she says.

For Das, the movie is closest to her heart as multiple texts used for the project were texts exchanged between her and her partner when physical distance separated the two. She says that the idea behind a constant transition from urban to semi-urban spaces in the film바카라�s visuals is to find the connection for you and me, move beyond personal, and expose the vulnerabilities of longing and passion. In the constant work-play that we are a part of, we also incessantly try to find a connection and meaning to the world. And this meaning, as Das puts it, cannot be one absolute meaning, but they are floating ideas through which people connect.

She believes that this film바카라�s cinematography replaces the traditional chronology of imposition of one바카라�s own ideas into places, time and space, and rather captures the landscapes and scenes in all its naturality. 바카라�Each place has its own language, its own visual,바카라� she adds.

바카라�Love is overrated바카라�, Das quotes as she begins to say that it is the pining for one바카라�s physical presence, needfulness and longing that defines a relationship. 바카라�You often remember your sweethearts from the fights you have had and challenges you passed through, together,바카라� she says.

She uses a beautiful analogy to define the differentiated approaches for love and relationship, when together and when apart. 바카라�One often asks their partners to take a shower and complain about their odour. However, we cherish the person for months in their shirts and clothes when apart, sniffing them,바카라� she says.

The dissonant background scores with horns blaring, alarm ringing, pressed doorbells, and typing sound awakens the audience time and again from the soothing whispers of shower, silence, tunes, air, and rain. The makers use Spike Milligan바카라�s idea of telling you, 바카라�I cannot tell you in words ...I can only tell u in trees, mountains, oceans, and streams.바카라� The beauty of defining one through the objects of nature breaks the binaries and boundaries established by verbal language and exposes one바카라�s flowing thoughts in all their vulnerabilities. It is in the backdrop of these exchanges; rains make repeated guest appearances on the screen.

Quenching the midday thirst of lonely tarred roads, rain blurs the rear windshield of a car in motion as the shadow of a woman struggles with gripping loneliness, moving away from what her heart craves, and her body longs for.

However, For You and Me works within the heteronormative structures of a monogamous relationship, alienating queer longingness and the idea of platonic love. It only focuses on the physical separation by choice or circumstances and pines for physical reassurances. The film while romanticising the idea of a long-distance relationship also does not take into account the frustration and exhaustion that goes into keeping long distances alive. There is no mention of the energy that one is often drained of, in a relationship where there are no reassuring hugs from your partner at the end of the day.

There is, however, the mention of pain as a text reads, 바카라�I don바카라�t feel fear, I feel pain바카라� as the visual of a floating cloud weaves the viewer바카라�s imagination which soon shifts to a shower, of flowing emotions and pain. Das also shares that the film was initially perceived by her and her partner as a personal project, drawn from their own separation, never meant for the outside world. But in the process of ideation and brainstorming, they realised the universality of their long-distance relationship that can sufficiently be defined through their exchange of texts. 바카라�We never wrote down the film, it was conceived,바카라� Das explains.

(This appeared in the print edition as "Dreamscape")