Another Day

Another Day was conceived partly as a reaction to the kind of indie filmmaking that was happening around me at the time. For small filmmakers, the short film medium has become solely a way of wooing audiences, producers and ultimately the market, and a temporary ground on which they wish to build their feature career, because that is the presumed goal, feature length filmmaking. Although it’s a desirable thing for every filmmaker, short films thus get underutilized. For me, a huge inspiration was non-fiction and experimental cinema, where one finds mostly shorter films. Another inspiration was the Asian master in cinema– Hirokazu Kore-eda. The themes of family and belonging run deep and parallel in all of Asian cinema, especially Japanese and Indian.
Drawing from both of these, I wanted to do deeply honest, humble, intimate and original storytelling; without the burden of spectacle or the expectation that comes with money spending or making. I used casting as a tool for creative expression and did not wish to work with actors who had a certain preconception of what a performance is. Working with non-actors, I was able to freely shoot with long time friends and collaborate in a non-professional way, which helps to make cinema-making more organic and less industrial. It is a less sustainable way of making cinema, perhaps, but to me it’s rare and necessary.