Stark Electric Jesus

Stark Electric Jesus
Directed by Hyash Tanmoy, Mrigankasekhar Ganguly
Produced by Hyash Tanmoy, Arindam Biswas
Written by Mrigankasekhar Ganguly, Hyash Tanmoy
Based on Stark Electric Jesus 
by Malay Roy Choudhury
Starring Mrigankasekhar Ganguly, Srija Bhattacharjee
Narrated by Malay Roy Choudhury
Cinematography Mrigankasekhar Ganguly, Purab Mukherjee
Edited by Mrigankasekhar Ganguly, Purab Mukherjee, Nivedita
Distributed by Hyash Tanmoy from ZERO DEGREE ARTS
Release dates
  • 22 September 2014 (2014-09-22) (USA)
Running time
 12 minutes
Country India
Budget 5000 INR

Stark Electric Jesus is a 2014 short film inspired by the poem Prochondo Boidyutik Chhutar or Stark Electric Jesus written by Malay Roy Choudhury. The film has won the official selection as the only Indian film at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festivalin New Media section [1] and has been selected for screening at Leeds Independent Film Festival.[2] The Film has also won 27 official selection in 20 different countries and also won 'Best Video Art' from Poland, 'Most Promising Artist' Award from Madatac,06, Spain [3] and 'Best Fantasy Film' award from Hrizantema International Horror & Fantasy Film Festival, Serbia.[4][5][6]

Plot

A mentally disordered man hallucinates and dreams 'unnatural' things where comes references of mythology, sexual identity and protest against sexual harassment.

Cast

Cine-poem

This is probably the first cine-poem (cine-poetry) or poefilm or Film-poem in India. It breaks the narrative structure and creates a language of poetry in film. [7]

Selections and Awards

Bucharest, Romania

Subotica, Serbia/Montenegro AWARDS Best Fantasy Film

Bogotá, Colombia AWARDS Nomination for Best Film - Coctel Inauguración [Sala Fundadores]

Minsk, Belarus AWARDS Nomination for Best Experimental Film

Porto, Portugal AWARDS Nomination for Best Film

Barcelona, Spain AWARDS MOST PROMISING VIDEO ARTIST AWARD

Wiener Neustadt, Austria AWARDS Nomination for Best Film

Barcelona, Spain AWARDS NOMINEE FOR BEST SHORT FILM-LGTIB AWARD

Leeds, United Kingdom

Paris, France AWARDS Nomination for Best PRIX : COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE

Cologne, Germany

Boston, U S A

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago

Manitoba, Cameroon

Sydney, Australia

Balearic Islands, Spain

Oakland, U S A

Kolkata, India

References

  1. ↑ "Stark Electric Jesus - trinidad+tobago film festival". trinidad+tobago film festival (trinidad+tobago film festival). 13 Aug 2014. Retrieved 13 Aug 2014.
  2. ↑ "SCREENING VISUALS: STARK ELECTRIC JESUS (INDIA)". NO/GLOSS TEAM (NO/GLOSS TEAM). 27 Aug 2014. Retrieved 27 Aug 2014.
  3. ↑ "MADATAC AWARDS". MADATAC.
  4. ↑ "কম বাজেটের প্রতিবাদ". ebela (ABP Group). 23 September 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
  5. ↑ "মলয় বিদ্যুৎ". Anandabazar Patrika (ABP Group). 29 October 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  6. ↑ "কয়েক জন কলেজ পড়ুয়া". ei samay (Times Group). 6 October 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  7. ↑ "‘প্রচণ্ড বৈদ্যুতিক ছুতার’ ও একটি চিন্তা". charbak (charbak). 6 September 2015. Retrieved 6 September 2015.

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