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SECTOR QUICKSAND

By Abhay KUMAR

SEESAW PICTURES - as PROD

Art - Culture - Completed 2025


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    • Year of production
    • 2025
    • Genres
    • Art - Culture
    • Countries
    • NETHERLANDS, KOREA (South), INDIA
    • Director(s)
    • Abhay KUMAR
    • Producer(s)
    • Heejung OH (SEESAW PICTURES)
    • Synopsis
    • In a city of straight lines, what happens when a curve is introduced?

      Chandigarh stands as an anomaly amongst the chaotic Indian landscape. Designed by Le Corbusier in 1964 as a utopian vision of what modern independent India could be, his obsession with straight lines and ‘form follows function’ is evident in the urban design of the city.

      In 2020, the director visits his parents in his hometown of Chandigarh trying to resolve an ongoing disagreement over his life choices. Over this time spent at home where moments of gentle affection seem to be punctuated by a total communication breakdown, the filmmaker starts to suspect that the city might have a more insidious role to play in this unravelling situation. As he spends time within the grid of the house, the larger grid structures around him start becoming apparent. Could it be possible that the design of this city suppresses individuality, which threatens its ideal of order and coherence?



      The film plays out in a dystopian setting where the will of an individual is set against the collective will of the city itself - the city as a breathing organism, made of clean lines, geometric angles demanding submission to its will, and the individual trying to come to terms with the cost of going against it.
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