the film

Inspired by director Darshan Singh Bhuller’s daughter’s experience with loss, Nala (2022, 2 min 15 sec) is a dance film about processing grief. Shot by cinematographer Justin Ervin, set to an original score by Andrew Ryan, and danced by revered dancer PeiJu Chien-Pott, the film unfolds from the public to the private and expresses, through movement, the depths of trauma, and the tension between despair and strength. What is at first overwhelming and all-encompassing, becomes tempered, and absorbed into the natural landscape. Nala is the winner of Best Dance Film at Oz Indie Film Festival 2023.

my role

Camera operator.