

A makeup artist confronts the one face he's never painted: his own.
The 6 minutes film unfurls the story of self discovery in the strangest time through a MakeUp Artist. His only guest happens to be economic crisis. With the moist eyes and the time he is left alone with, his sight is beclouded. So, he turns to himself to see a face he has never seen beneath his brushes, a face he has never bothered to acknowledge.
Direction
Twin directors wring epic intimacy from lockdown limitations.
Cinematography
Moist-eyed closeups that refuse to let you look away.
Acting
Umesh Nilambur's silent unraveling — no dialogue needed.
Director
Ovin Saga Aryadan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Kerala during actual lockdown, it captures a specifically Indian pandemic experience — gig workers abandoned overnight, beauty industry decimated.
Twin directors Ovin and Olin Saga Aryadan turned their own isolation into this; the makeup artist's mirror becomes meta-commentary on filmmaking itself.
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