Atal Krishnan
Directing
Biography
Atal Krishnan is an independent filmmaker and editor based in Kochi, Kerala. He primarily works with a shoestring budget and a minimal crew. Atal has directed numerous short films, taking on the editing responsibilities various projects.
Known For
A real woman, doing things, being in places. A girl like us, holding a camera, filming her immediate surroundings to show us how it is not easy being a woman, to reveal the elemental plight of being.
Woman With A Movie Camera
Four seasons play out in a house that hasn't seen the passage of time, each bringing forth and burying a piece of what it means to be human. An elderly man experiences relentless heat until a stranger interrupts his solitude. A woman hears the house breathing all around her as she floats through a blizzard of fears and dreams. A man welcomes strangers who might not be who they seem in the unending daylight of continuous rain. And when spring finally arrives, it brings change rather than rebirth. Marthyaloka Ithihasam (The Human Odyssey), a dystopian fable that take us through life's cycles, inspired by Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra.