Kinnari (Short)
Christopher Di Nunzio has been a filmmaker of great versatility and style over the years- you don’t really get the same film from him each time. In his short film, “Kinnari,” we see a man (David, played by David Graziano), speaking to us about his thoughts. It feels like a confessional, and we see him going about his daily routine as he speaks. What he is saying speaks to the spiritual nature of man, that nature that is always searching for enlightenment, for purpose, for a reason to be alive. Him speaking is parallel to his routine, and walking around when he sees a woman (Kinnari, played by Jamie Joshi), but the two converge into one, as he appears to be recounting the actions we see onscreen.
“Kinnari” is less than five minutes long, but feels like a lifetime of understanding, or trying to understand, the mysteries and paradoxes of life, put into a single thought, or at least, attempted to put into a single thought. I don’t know that I would consider it successful in that task, but it’s compelling to watch as we see Graziano and Joshi act out this moment in time of great awakening for David as we hear his words draw us in. Shot in black-and-white, “Kinnari” is haunting, thoughtful, and leaves us thinking about similar moments in our life, or wondering when we might have one ourselves.
Kinnari from Christopher Di Nunzio on Vimeo.
