{"id":445,"date":"2024-03-05T02:31:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T01:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidenz.com\/?post_type=portfolio&p=445"},"modified":"2024-07-31T11:06:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T09:06:59","slug":"schirkoa-in-lies-we-trust","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/dissidenz.com\/index.php\/portfolio\/schirkoa-in-lies-we-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A film by Ishan SHUKLA<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In a dystopian world where people are forced to wear paper bags over their heads, a newly appointed council member sparks an accidental revolution.<\/p>\n

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Written and directed by: Ishan Shukla
\nWith the artistic collaboration of Bich-Quan Tran
\nBased upon the short film \u201cSchirkoa\u201d created by Ishan Shukla<\/strong><\/h6>\n
Original score: Sneha Khanwalkar<\/strong>
\nSound editing and sound design: Nicolas Titeux<\/strong>
\nDesigns: Ishan Shukla, Yaning Feng<\/strong>
\nLies\u2019 clothes are designed by: Antonio Grimaldi<\/strong>
\nStoryboard: Shahab Serwaty<\/strong>
\nCinematography, FX, Lighting: Ishan Shukla<\/strong>
\nEditing and Compositing: Ishan Shukla<\/strong>
\n3D Animation Supervisor: Piyush Mittal<\/strong>
\nMoCap: SolidAnim<\/strong>
\nSound Mixing: Florent Fournier-Sicre, Nicolas Titeux<\/strong><\/h6>\n
Voice Cast
\nGolshifteh Farahani, Asia Argento, SoKo, King Khan, Denzil Smith, John Sutton
\nand introducing Tibu Fortes and Shahbaz Sarwar<\/strong><\/h6>\n
Voice guest stars
\nLav Diaz, Gaspar Noe, Karan Johar, Shekhar Kapur, Anurag Kashyap, Piyush Mishra<\/strong><\/h6>\n
Producers: Bich-Quan Tran, Ishan Shukla<\/strong>
\nCo-producers: Stephan Holl, Samir Sarkar<\/strong>
\nExecutive Producer: Anushka Shah<\/strong><\/h6>\n
A Dissidenz Films and Red Cigarette Media production
\nin co-production with Rapid Eye Movies
\nin association with Civic Studios and Cofinova 18<\/strong><\/h6>\n
with the support of
\nAide aux Cin\u00e9mas du Monde \u2013 Centre National du Cin\u00e9ma et de l\u2019Image Anim\u00e9e \u2013 Institut Fran\u00e7ais,
\nEpic MegaGrants, Film und Medienstiftung NRW,
\nNouvelle-Aquitaine region in partnership with the CNC<\/strong><\/h6>\n
Filmed in France and India<\/strong><\/h6>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_empty_space height=”65px”]\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRuntime: <\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t103 mins\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\tYear of Production: <\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2024\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\tCountries of production: <\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIndia, France, Germany\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\tProduction: <\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDissidenz Films, Red Cigarette Media\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\tIn co-production with: <\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRapid Eye Movies\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\tIn association with: <\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCivic Studios, Cofinova 18\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWorld Premiere: <\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIFF Rotterdam 2024 (NETPAC Award Winner)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLanguage: <\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEnglish\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFormat: <\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2K, Scope, 5.1\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWebsite: <\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twww.schirkoamovie.com\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSales: <\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNew Europe Film Sales, Anonymous Content (co-reps North America)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t[\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row thb_full_width=”true” thb_row_padding=”true” thb_column_padding=”true” thb_divider_position=”bottom” css=”.vc_custom_1709647912247{margin-bottom: 7vh !important;padding-top: 7vh !important;padding-bottom: 2vh !important;background-color: #cecece !important;}”][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_video link=”https:\/\/vimeo.com\/906798915″ el_width=”80″ align=”center”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row thb_divider_position=”bottom” el_class=”align-center”][vc_column offset=”vc_col-lg-9 vc_col-md-10″][vc_column_text]\n

Director’s Statement<\/strong><\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text animation=”animation bottom-to-top”]\n

For me animation amalgamates absurdity and fantasy in a provocative manner while still keeping the visual poetry and human moments intact.<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″ animation=”animation left-to-right”][vc_column_text]Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust<\/em> is a metaphorical reaction to the world I live in today -a perpetual conflict between two dimensions of our world. Thus, I imagined an alternate timeline where the whole world is concentrated into just two nations -an eclectic mix of cultures, identities and languages.<\/p>\n

One nation, Schirkoa, is striving hard to achieve perfection and quite successfully achieves it through the \u2018Bag Act\u2019. The second nation, Konthaqa, is more human, colorful, romantic, sometimes irrational and eventually chaotic.
\nBoth nations have thought-provoking ideas to run their nations and the better alternative can only be subjected to an individual\u2019s perception.<\/p>\n

Against this giant backdrop, there\u2019s an intimate story following the events in the life of a meek man whose life keeps ascending to extremities as he travels through these two worlds trying to find meaning between society, religion and family.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″ animation=”animation right-to-left”][vc_column_text]As the story treads forward we transit from a relatable contemporary setting to an avant-garde fantastical territory.<\/p>\n

Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust<\/em> is a cross cultural and multilingual country. It\u2019s an alternate future reimagined and compressed into a single country. This is also the reason many actors in the cast are going to be coming from a diverse range of artistic backgrounds, ethnicities, languages and cultures. I am actively looking for not just actors but individuals who can imbibe the codes these characters stand for. From poets, activists, filmmakers to musicians I am trying to explore a wider range of individuals for these roles.<\/p>\n

I tend to see the world through an absurdist lens: for me animation amalgamates absurdity and fantasy in a provocative manner while still keeping the visual poetry and human moments intact.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”60px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row thb_full_width=”true” thb_row_padding=”true” thb_column_padding=”true” thb_divider_position=”bottom” el_class=”align-center” css=”.vc_custom_1709649236863{margin-bottom: 7vh !important;padding-top: 7vh !important;padding-bottom: 2vh !important;background-color: #cecece !important;}”][vc_column offset=”vc_col-lg-9 vc_col-md-10″][vc_column_text]\n

About the Director<\/strong><\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″ animation=”animation left-to-right”][vc_single_image image=”482″ img_size=”medium”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″ animation=”animation right-to-left”][vc_column_text]Ishan drew his first comic at the age of 6. As a school kid he was deeply inclined towards writing, drawing and acting. He created many original comics before finishing school. After getting rejected from two art universities he got into a prestigious engineering college in India pursuing computer science. It was here when he found his love for theater and animation. He wrote and directed several plays and made a couple of short animated films in college. The love for animation films intensified and he dropped out by the third year to pursue animation as a career. In 2008 he got a diploma in animation from renowned Singapore 3dsense Media School and started his career as a CG artist there. After a few years of well paid yet disheartening animation work for advertising agencies and TV series he quit.<\/p>\n

He came back to his hometown in India to work on his own film. Meanwhile, he worked as a video editor and part time lecturer to pay the bills. He even worked as a CG art director at a monastery for 2 years[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text]where he worked and lived with the monks while working for their projects.
\nThese extremely diverse experiences completely changed his view of the world and art in general.<\/p>\n

Amidst these brief stints, he managed to finish his first short film, Schirkoa<\/em>, single-handedly in 4 years working nights and weekends. The film became the first Indian animated short to get long listed for the Academy Awards followed by tremendous reception at more than 120 international festivals. The film has received more than 30 awards.<\/p>\n

Ishan Shukla has now set up his own animation studio to work on highly personal and artistic adult oriented animated feature films aimed at both an arthouse and broad audience.<\/p>\n

Ishan Shukla is also the director of The Bandits of Golak<\/em>, one of the nine short stories from the Lucasfilm anthology series Star Wars: Visions Volume 2<\/em>, which premiered in May 2023 on Disney+.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”60px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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