The Butterfly

Nisheeta Keni is a writer and director primarily of short films. She has completed a Bachelor’s Degree in film making, specializing in Direction from Whistling Woods International. During her time there, Nisheeta has written and directed several short films. The subjects that she has dealt with so far through her films include fear of failure, relationships with parents, OCD, alcoholism, commitment phobia, the nature of impulsive thinking, film within film, repression and nature v/s nurture. Her approach to film making is surrealistic especially in visual story and the crafting of sound design in her films. Her characters, especially her protagonists, are extreme people who have become this way due to exterior as well as self-inflicted conflicts. In Nisheeta’s films, the characters’ mind space where most of the time the conflict of the film is created is given utmost importance. Her characters are loners and pessimistic in nature. Majorly her protagonists are women characters because a lot of her film making comes from an autobiographical and personal dream space. The idea of blurring memory, dream and reality is what Nisheeta’s films are based on.