Experiencing Interruptions?

All Your Yesterdays

A husband reveals scathing truths to his wife of 40 years as they downsize and empty their house of possessions with no one to inherit their estate.

  • Dini Parayitam
    Director
  • Dini Parayitam
    Writer
    How Do You Like Your Eggs?
  • Prashant Vankamamidi
    Producer
  • Dini Parayitam
    Producer
  • Kirby Gamel
    Producer
    Where The Stars Are (feature)
  • Amy McPeak
    Producer
    Killer Abs, Where The Stars Are
  • Bill Karnovsky
    Key Cast
    "Marty"
  • Linda Bradshaw
    Key Cast
    "Diane"
  • Zach Broyles
    Music Composer
  • Zen Dot
    Post Production Producer
  • Cade Tindell
    Gaffer
  • Juliette Roberts
    1st AC
  • Audrena Engelsen
    Key Grip
  • Grace Sevier
    Grip
  • Duncan Harrist
    Grip
  • John Brown
    Grip
  • Tom Santos
    Assistant Director
  • Henry Mayes
    Production Assistants
  • Clint Finley
    Production Assistants
  • Rajeev Vishaka
    Production Assistants
  • Greg Caponigro
    Production Assistants
  • Robin Bissett
    Associate Producer
  • Kirby Gamel
    Director of Photography
    Killer Abs
  • Carroll Chiramel
    Editor
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    romance, drama
  • Runtime:
    15 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    March 20, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    15,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1:9:1
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • New York Shorts International Film Festival
    New York City
    United States
    October 15, 2023
    World Premiere
  • South Dakota Film Festival
Director Biography - Dini Parayitam

Dini Parayitam is an Indian-American fiction writer, screenwriter, and director based in New York City. Dini attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and received an MFA in Fiction. She has written and produced short films, All Your Yesterdays and How Do You Like Your Eggs? (both currently submitted to festivals). She is currently developing the feature script of How Do You Like Your Eggs? with Zen Dot; an LGBTQ-narrative feature with Sachin Dheeraj Mudigonda (director of Testimony of Ana); a comedy with Rahul Ramakrishna (actor from RRR); and a high-concept sci-fi family drama TV-series with Maryan Nagy Captan.

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Director Statement

This film is a contemplation on the lifespan of secrets. Do the secrets we keep from our spouse in our childbearing ages remain potent in our old age? Or, when do these secrets convert into beliefs we hold about ourselves, and when do those beliefs turn into core components of our identity? I was most compelled to explore this question through Marty and Diane’s dynamic and marriage--their individual perception of it and one another.

What is marriage but a negotiation, a choice of the life we envision for ourselves. When we don't have all the information pertinent to make that decision, how will that reframe the life we've led for forty years? Will there ever be anything our spouse can say that might rectify the betrayal? Or do we choose to believe the lie they've been telling themselves as a final act of grace?

There is a controversial and somewhat experimental scene that takes place half way through the movie where I made the explicit decision to keep the camera as wide and still as possible. Marty and Diane are seated on the couch, surrounded by all the things from yesterday. It is in this moment of inaction, of boredom, of ennui, where a confession takes place - the confession that feels unbothered by time, and doesn't fully understand perhaps, what fracture it provokes.

For this movie, I was very inspired by the film Amour and the desire to create as much of a play-like quality in film as I could get away with.