Logline
A filmmaker in exile discovers an unusual VHS tape in an abandoned office.
As he rewatches it, the people on the tape begin to enter his life.
Reality fractures into memory, hallucination, and static —
a meditative double-screen kinema about loneliness, recursion, and the fear of the void.
Project Information
Title: Tape Story 03
Kinema Number: 3
Creator: Waadee Krax Seagull
Language: Hindi, Odia (with English subtitles)
Runtime: 180 minutes
Format: Double-screen
Style: Lo-Fi
Genre: Drama
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Original Medium: Digital Harinezumi (lo-fi toy camera)
Exhibition Format: Two projectors + stereo sound per screen
Introduction
In most films, you watch one screen.
Here, there are two.
Two images and sounds move side by side — sometimes meeting, often drifting apart.
As you watch, your mind begins to connect them.
The invisible film that forms inside you becomes the third film — the one only you can see.
Like a ghazal, it’s built on fragments that rhyme in feeling, not logic.
Each shot is a couplet; each silence a breath.
Memory, illusion, burnout, and recursion drift through its three-hour structure — a slow, poetic reflection on loneliness and the unfinished human condition.
Lo-Fi
Tape Story 03 is lo-fi and handmade — like a pair of torn jeans.
When the industry wants us to wear only formal, ironed trousers, I’m offering you torn denim.
The film was shot on a Digital Harinezumi, a small Japanese toy camera known for its unstable, unpredictable image quality.
The footage remains uncorrected, ungraded, and untouched.
Lo-Fi cinema lets us feel the image instead of consuming it.
If a clean, ironed trouser represents Hi-Fi cinema, Lo-Fi is torn jeans — flawed, honest, and full of life.
What is Kinema?
I call this rebellion Kinema.
Tape Story 03 is the third Kinema in a growing series that challenges the orthodox ideas shaping the film industry.
In this project, I replaced the single-screen format with two — inviting the audience into a new kind of cinematic experience.
Think of cinema as a distant planet hidden in deep space.
Only a few astronauts have been there before — Tarkovsky, Ozu, Béla Tarr — and they have explored only a small part of it.
Most of it remains uncharted.
Kinema is an effort to explore those unseen parts.
It sees filmmakers not as technicians, but as explorers.
Our work is to travel into the darkness, find something never seen before, and bring back artefacts of that journey.
Kinema is not interested in what cinema was;
it asks what cinema could still become.
What Lies Ahead
TS03 is only one of many expeditions.
Future Kinema projects will keep questioning what a film really needs —
a camera, an editor, a director,
or perhaps only an audience willing to look.
Each Kinema explores a new way of seeing and sharing.
Together, they form a constellation of experiments suggesting that cinema is still young,
and its map remains incomplete.
Other Kinema Projects
- Kinema 01 – Panne (unreleased)
A lo-fi film shot on a Japanese toy camera.
Orthodoxy Broken: That cinema needs high-end technology. - Kinema 02 – Prem Patra (unreleased)
A 60-second double-screen piece.
Orthodoxy Broken: That cinema must exist within a single frame. - Kinema 03 – Tape Story 03 (touring begins mid-2026)
A double-screen ghazal on loneliness.
Orthodoxy Broken: That cinema must flow in one timeline. - Kinema 05 – Mother (in development)
A film made without a camera — presence through absence. - Kinema 06 – Horses (pre-production)
A film made from sunlight — cinema as pure reflection and movement.
Kinema 04 – The Invisible Dance (work in progress)
The next expedition in the Kinema journey.
A dialogue-free feature about an auto-rickshaw driver slowly losing his hearing as he tries to return a forgotten suitcase to a speech-impaired passenger.
The orthodoxy it questions is still taking shape — something to do with sound, silence, and how we listen.
It seeks a cinematic language rooted in rhythm, gesture, and atmosphere — where emotion flows not from words, but from presence.
The script is registered, and I’m seeking collaborators and funding.
If you’d like to join this journey, please write to me at
waadee.contact@gmail.com
Warmly,
Waadee Krax Seagull
Each Kinema is a question turned into form — a small rebellion revealing another way to see.
Waadee, 2025
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