Persistence Resistance 2010, which was held from 25-27 February 2010 at the India International Centre, Delhi brought together scholars and filmmakers on a common platform wherein each filmmaker had a different experience to share regarding their creative processes and deconstructed their art of filmmaking:
We bring to you the discussion between Saba Dewan and Sabina Gadihoke held on 26th February, 2010.
Link: Saba Dewan in conversation with Sabina Gadihoke
Excerpts from the conversation:
‘Scripting for films always depends on the kinds of films. The genres that I have worked with, have always been selected in terms of the way a story was unfolding with me. For a film like Barf, which was exercise in verité, I couldn’t script it. What I did know was that I knew all the girls very well and I knew what to expect from them in Delhi- but I dint know what to expect from them during the journey. I had no idea about how it would unfold.’
- Saba Dewan
You use different kinds of strategies while making your films, so there is a little bit of observational, there’s constructiveness, there’s verite and there’s all of that working with your films. This is more of a question about scriptwriting. Still, there are these moments in documentary that you can go on scripting forever and yet there is this other unexpected moment, which is always so wonderful about documentaries.
- Sabina Gadihoke