There have been several attacks against the US consulate in Karachi (Wiki link), and pparently there is an ongoing incident now. .
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
"Love Book": curious short film using Facebook; "And the Sky Turned Black": a gay journalist is blinded in a terror attack in Pakistan
On a day I was busy storm-watching, I found a 15-minute short
“Love Book”. Directed by Muhammad Aasim Qamar,
curiously under “LGBT short films” on YouTube, but this film was straight and
it might have been filmed in Pakistan (it might be Karachi; the outdoors scenes look tropical).
Ali Agzhar is an appealing late teen in a private high
school. He is shy, by the meets Noor
Malik on Facebook and then in class. The
visuals of much of the film center around how Facebook works, which is a
curious fimmaking concept. The earl scenes are in black and white, and tepia
tints (especially purple) are graduakky introduced to convert to color. Ali’s Blackberry is actually white. The film has no spoken dialogue; it’s all
Facebook -- and "Likeonomics". .
The film comes from Radiant Pictures and Maq Creativity.
The 11-minute short “And The Sky Turned Black”, directed by Ellis
Watamanuk, with Nicholas Wilder and Travis Grant, presents an intimate
encounter where a blind photojournalist picks up a gay trick, and then tells
the story, with few words, of how he was blinded in a terrorist attack in Karachi. He explains what he has lost, and wonders if
his new friend is someone he knew, who could have betrayed him.
There have been several attacks against the US consulate in Karachi (Wiki link), and pparently there is an ongoing incident now. .
There have been several attacks against the US consulate in Karachi (Wiki link), and pparently there is an ongoing incident now. .
The link is here. See also "A Mighty Heart", reviewed June 24, 2007.
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