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All Your Yesterdays

Short Film (Runtime 15:06)

A husband reveals scathing truths to his wife of 40 years as they downsize and empty their house of possessions with no one to inherit their estate.

This is an experimental film insomuch as any marriage is an experiment worth exploring. 

Film Festivals & Awards

New York Shorts International Film Festival

Premiere

(October 15, 2023)

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Director's Statement

Producer / Director / Writer 

This film is a contemplation on the lifespan of secrets. Do the secrets we keep from our spouse in our childbearing ages remain potent in our old age? Or, when do these secrets convert into beliefs we hold about ourselves, and when do those beliefs turn into core components of our identity? I was most compelled to explore this question through Marty and Diane’s dynamic and marriage--their individual perception of it and one another.

 

What is marriage but a negotiation, a choice of the life we envision for ourselves. When we don't have all the information pertinent to make that decision, how will that reframe the life we've led for forty years? Will there ever be anything our spouse can say that might rectify the betrayal? Or do we choose to believe the lie they've been telling themselves as a final act of grace?

 

There is a controversial and somewhat experimental scene that takes place half way through the movie where I made the explicit decision to keep the camera as wide and still as possible. Marty and Diane are seated on the couch, surrounded by all the things from yesterday. It is in this moment of inaction, of boredom, of ennui, where a confession takes place - the confession that feels unbothered by time, and doesn't fully understand perhaps, what fracture it provokes. 

 

For this movie, I was very inspired by the film "Amour" and the desire to create as much of a play-like quality in film as I could get away with.

From Storyboarding to Filming

Screengrabs

The details of our film journey

Team

Key Cast ("Marty")

Bill Karnovsky

Key Cast ("Diane")

Linda Bradshaw

Writer-Director-Producer

Dini Parayitam

Producer

Prashant Vankamamidi

Producer - Director of Photography - Colorist

Kirby Gamel

Producer - Script Supervisor

Amy McPeak

Editor 

Carroll Chiramel

Assistant Director

Tom Santos

Associate Producer

Robin Bissett

Gaffer

Cade Tindell

Music Composer - Sound

Zach Broyles

Post Production Supervisor

Zen Dot

1st Assistant Camera 

Juliette Roberts

Key Grip

Audrena Engelsen

Grip

Grace Sevier

Grip

Duncan Harrist

Grip

John Brown

Production Assistant

Henry Mayes

Production Assistant

Clint Finley

Production Assistant

Rajeev Visakha

Production Assistant

Greg Caponigro

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