CWC Global: Deep6

Kolkata, 2011: the Communist-led Left Front has just been voted out after 34 years in power. In its absence, the city’s ghosts appear to haunt those who remain. Deep6 follows Mitul (Tillotama Shome), a journalist who wanders through multiple lives. While living alone in her family’s old house, Mitul is visited by the spirit of her grandmother, intent on watching Mitul’s television and regaling her with stories of her lost homeland, Bangladesh. And when her ex-boyfriend Arka (Cahndan Roy Sanyal) appears below her balcony on a rainy night, he resurfaces a political dream that Mitul had buried long ago.

Shot on a shoestring budget, Deep6 unfolds in images of the evocative urban landscape, featuring meditative long takes and intense sound design. The film generates an immersive experience of Kolkata, at a time when the past refused to be left behind.

Filmmaker Madhuja Mukherjee will join moderator Bishnupriya Ghosh (English and Global Studies, UCSB) for a post-screening discussion of Deep6.