Short Films
OM:OldMan
English, Malayalam, Tamil | India Documentary | 30 mins
Awaiting Indian Premiere
‘OM: OldMan’ explores the enclosed world of VU2JN (Prof R Jayaraman), an elderly Ham from South India, set against the sights and sounds of an election campaign. A restrained portraiture of one of the senior-most hams in India, the film is a salutation to a youthful passion for an old form of technology that keeps the elderly as much as the young engaged with the world. Man, science and politics intersect signifying not just the private and public, but also the world beyond, as post cards and airwaves take us to distant lands, long before the Internet. Coded call outs, call signs, high frequencies, interferences, Morse code, hums and crackling voices in the band collide with the election slogans and songs and we get a hint of the drama of the man’s life and the country’s life behind the memories, behind the technology, behind the rhetoric of utopian slogans.
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Director(s) Geetha J. Ian McDonald
Producer(s) Geetha J.
Contact AkamPuram 91 9447744864 geetha@akampuram.net www.akampuram.net/om-old-man
Film Bazaar 2017