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Director :
Shabani Hassanwalia and Samreen Farooqui
Producer :
Public Service Broadcasting Trust
Censor Rating : NA
Duration : 60 min
Year of Production : 2011
Genre : Documentary Films
Category : Development
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Synopsis :
The 19th century philosopher, Søren Kierkegaard, maintained that the individual is solely responsible for giving his/ her own life meaning, in spite of many existential obstacles like despair, angst, absurdity, alienation and boredom. The phenomenon of social networking, it seems, is here to answer the old existentialist’s call. To find reasons to love - ourselves and others. The Film explores online identity formation as it sifts through six lives, to tell a story of this new self we’re forming and of old selves we still inhabit.
Samreen and Shabani founded Hit and Run Films in 2005, an independent video production unit, which engages with changing socio-political-personal realities through documentaries, video art and intervention films. Their first feature Out of Thin Air was the opening film at Film South Asia, 2009, and official selection at International Film Festival of Rotterdam, 2010.