the to do list confessions
Format: 16 mm film
Run Time: 15 minutes, 15 seconds
May 2001.

the to do list confessions is an experimental short by filmmaker Kirthi Nath that explores experiences of widened loneliness and undetermined desire, all the while contemplating what it feels like to be a self in the world. Utilizing innovative approaches to sound, image and storytelling, "the to do list confessions" poetically and poignantly engages what it feels like to be a woman encountering the world as a conglomerate of perceptions. Interlaced between a woman in San Diego, CA who dreams she is a woman following another woman through the streets of Paris, and the women in Paris, the film articulates experiences of the self through movements, gestures, and sounds that shift between single and multiple protagonists, for an always slippery and shifting experience of one's self in time and space.

Recipient of: Russell Grant, Graduate Student Grant.
Screenings: SF Magazine Best of the Bay 2009, Chicago Filmmakers/ ThirdI: Kirthi Nath Retrospective, Modern Times 35th Anniversary Celebration (SF, CA, October 2006), Collected Works/Selected Experiences: An Evening with Kirthi Nath at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF, CA, September 29, 2004), Beyond Bollywood- Words and Visions: A Salon of Poetry, Film and Contemporary Thought presented by Locus 1640 (SF, CA, July 2, 2003), Ladyfest Texas (Austin, TX, May 2003), Modern Times Bookstore (SF, CA, 2003), Ladyfest Bay Area (SF, CA July 2002), “MERA NAM EMERGING- RECENT WORKS BY INDIAN AMERICAN ARTISTS”, an event presented by AECA Alliance of Emerging and Creative Artists) featuring 3 films by Kirthi Nath, poetry by Summi Kaipa with a discussion moderated by Tisa Bryant (SF, CA, May 30, 2002), Moondance International Film Festival 2002 (Boulder CO, January 2002), SomArts as part of Kearny Street Workshop's APATURE 2001- A Window on the Art of Emerging Asian Pacific American Artists (SF, CA, September 2001), as part of Film Arts Festival Film Café (SF, CA, November 2001), 21 Grand as part of an experimental art-see-hear night with music by OSCOPY and poetry by Summi Kaipa and Lauren Gudath (Oakland, CA, July 2001), Ladyfest Scotland (SCOTLAND, August 2001), UCSD Visual Arts Performance Space (SD, CA, May 2001), preview screening and discussion at THINKING GENDER a conference held at UCLA (LA, CA, March 2001). Short film second round quarter-finalist for Moondance 2002 film competition.

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