Shortest film ever

FOR the first time in the world, an ant figured as the pivot of a ‘nano’ movie, whose director claims his 10-second-long work is the shortest film ever made.

Though the film is of a fleeting span and its lead character a tiny creature, director Sathar Adhoor said the work was a serious attempt to reflect on the good and evil sides of man.

In seven micro shots, the film depicts a man saving a drowning ant but crushes it under his foot the next moment when it stings his palm.

"It is an attempt to define the nature of man within the shortest possible time. Man has two sides. Good and evil.

For a moment, he feels mercy for a drowning ant. But when it stings him he turns merciless," Adhoor said.

Though the silent film — The Man — is brief, it took five hours for Adhoor to finish the shooting.

Adhoor has intimated the authorities of the Guinness Book of World Records about his work, which is now available on YouTube.

Earlier also, Adhoor had made creative attempts to convey messages in shortest possible time-frame using different media.

He has brought an SMS collection of short stories, comprising 101 stories in 104 pages of one inch each, he said. — PTI