Fleeting Beauty

Fleeting Beauty is a lyrical film that provokes us to reconsider the lessons handed down in history textbooks. While it recounts the travel and enterprise of ancient voyagers in search of spices, it describes how these journeys are...
New Zealand Production
Short 2004 Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama 11.00 minutes
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In the pale diffused light of an overcast afternoon, a woman traces the spice routes of antiquity on her lover's back. She tells her story with the scent of cinnamon, the golden stain of tumeric and the heat of chili.
2004 - Valladolid Film Festival
Montreal Film Festival
New Zealand International Film Festival
2005 - Palm Springs Film Festival
Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival

Directors

Virginia Pitts

Producers

Shuchi Kothari
Sarina Pearson

Screenplay Writers

Shuchi Kothari

Executive Producers

Shuchi Kothari
Karla Rodgers
Rashmi Tank

Cast

Nandita Das
Woman
William Wallace
Man

Crew

Grace Mok | Director of Photography
Eric de Beus | Editor

Production Company

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