"A Step Removed"

(Experimental/Narrative – 10 minutes)

At a one-hour photo store in Cary, a South Asian woman waits outside for her rolls of film to be printed. While she waits, her mind processes the pictures. Interweaving still photography and live-action sequences, as well as sounds of Bombay and Cary, "A Step Removed" engages the boundaries between past and present, East and West, photograph and film.

Filmmaker

Radha Vastal is a doctorate student at Duke University. She is involved in both film production and film studies. Her first documentary, "Cagey," screened at film festivals in North Carolina, South Carolina and Kentucky. She has made two other short student films: "Wrapped Under" and "Library, Quiet." This year, she received the Duke University Graduate Filmmaker Award.