Coup d'etat Math

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Movie
Original title Coup d'etat Math
Country of production United States
original language English , Spanish
Publishing year 2020
length 9 minutes
Rod
Director Sai Selvarajan
script Sai Selvarajan
production Sai Selvarajan
music Joey Kendall
cut Sai Selvarajan

Coup d'etat Math (French: roughly "mathematical coup") is a short film by Sai Selvarajan that was made available on their platform by the independent film distributor Oscilloscope Laboratories and the technology company Mailchimp from the end of March 2020 after the South by Southwest Film Festival was canceled .

content

After completing the online application form Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status of the Department of Homeland Security, four women tell their own personal escape story.

A woman tells of the circumstances of her own birth and how her father drove her mother to the hospital on the day of the birth. Another woman tells about a refugee camp and how they left the country by ship and how her height helped her to grab the hands of the rescuers. The third woman tells in a short sequence of her Tamil mother's table tennis career. The fourth woman tells in Spanish how she had left her 6-year-old daughter Nadia alone in her apartment because she had to work, among other things to be able to pay the lawyer who accompanied her immigration procedure. She taught her daughter the rule not to open the door to anyone when she is alone in the apartment. Nadia also followed this rule when a firefighter went from door to door to draw people's attention to the fire and asked them to leave the building immediately.

production

Directed by Sai Selvarajan , who also wrote the script. Selvarajan was born in Sri Lanka , grew up in Nigeria and, after a brief stay in the UK , moved to Dallas , Texas, at the age of nine . He graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2001 with a degree in film and graphic design.

Coup d'etat Math was conceived shortly after the Trump administration announced a so-called "Muslim ban". With the increasing demonization of immigrants, Selvarajan knew it was the right moment to tell his story and that of others describing the journey of the people. The French "Coup d'État" from which it is named stands for a coup or a coup d'état, a mostly violent and surprising act by members of the military or paramilitary organizations and / or a group of politicians with the aim of overthrowing the government and gaining power in the state to take over.

Sara Amini, Tyler Wetherall, Parimala Marpaka and Liliana Vargas acted as narrators from different cultures.

The watercolor pictures and drawings shown in the film are by Amanda Selvarajan, with whom the director also worked on the short film Sugarless Tea . The illustrations and woodcuts were made by Olivia Saldivarjan.

The score was composed by Joey Kendall.

After the cancellation of the South by Southwest Film Festival , where the film was due to premiere in March 2020, the independent film distributor Oscilloscope Laboratories and the technology company Mailchimp made the film available free of charge on a joint online platform for 30 days. After that, the makers of the film can decide whether to let it run there for two more years with an SVOD license .

Awards

South by Southwest Film Festival 2020

  • Special jury recognized in the Texas Shorts category (Sai ​​Selvarajan)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Coup d'etat Math. In: mailchimp.com. Retrieved April 11, 2020 (Video)
  2. ↑ Sai Selvarajan. In: artofthetitle.com. Retrieved April 11, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b c Mercedes Milligan: Sai Selvarajan's 'Coup d'état Math' to World Premiere at SXSW. In: animationmagazine.net, February 27, 2020.
  4. ↑ Chris Lindahl: Most SXSW Shorts Are Streaming Free Thanks to Oscilloscope and Mailchimp. In: indiewire.com, March 25, 2020.