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The screenplay of our lives is already written.

We just don’t know the next scene.

Rohit Gupta

INT. CORPORATE AMERICA. 2008.
A career on the rise.

Then came four weeks off,
to get this film thing out of his system.

Little did he know.

It did the opposite.

New York Film Academy · 2008
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On Set

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Chapter three · On the floor

Seven hours. Ten days.
Two nights.

Int./Ext. Three productions · 2009–2016

Another Day, Another Life — one seven-hour guerrilla session, and the first thing he ever shot.

Life! Camera Action… — two people, ten days, and two national records certified by the Limca Book of Records.

Midnight Delight — thirteen actors, two nights, one smoking lounge. No locked script, and it opens on a stoned mouse rousing the jungle.

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The street inside the viewfinder
Life! Camera Action…New York · Jersey CityTen days · two people
  1. The camera on the table before day one
    01The camera on the table before day one
  2. Crouched at the tripod on the sidewalk
    02Crouched at the tripod on the sidewalk
  3. Talking a scene through at the camera
    03Talking a scene through at the camera
  4. The street inside the viewfinder
    04The street inside the viewfinder
  5. Running lines between setups
    05Running lines between setups
  6. Blocking a scene on the sidewalk
    06Blocking a scene on the sidewalk
  7. Over the pages, mid-shoot
    07Over the pages, mid-shoot
  8. Lit and ready inside
    08Lit and ready inside

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Midnight Delight

Thirteen actors · two nights · 2016
On setOne smoking lounge · two nights · no locked script

Twenty-five frames from this shoot. They appear as a scrubbable reel once the page is interactive.

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Life! Camera Action…

Two people · ten days · 2012
2people carried
the production
The crew · Life! Camera Action… · 2012 · as the record names them
Rohit GuptaProducer · Director
Ravi Kumar RCinematographer

The dozen people on a Jersey City street in these frames were in front of the camera or lending a hand. The credited production team was Rohit Gupta and cinematographer Ravi Kumar R, and that is how the record names them.

Film stillsFrames from the finished film · Life! Camera Action…

Photographs from this stage of the production appear here once the page is interactive.

Life! Camera Action — a still from the film — mikeLife! Camera Action — a still from the film — professorLife! Camera Action — a still from the film — restaurantLife! Camera Action — a still from the film — rooftopLife! Camera Action — a still from the film — waterfront
On setNewark Avenue, Jersey City · two people, ten days

Fifty-two frames from this shoot. They appear as a scrubbable reel once the page is interactive.

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Another Day, Another Life — the first film, 2009
Where it all started

Seven hours.
One short film.

Another Day, Another Life — the first thing he ever shot.

Four minutes of suspense, captured in a single seven-hour session on a Panasonic DVX100 and cut on a MacBook Pro, as a student exercise at the New York Film Academy.

The exercise went to the Short Film Corner at the Festival de Cannes, was selected by more than thirty festivals on four continents over the next four years, took thirteen wins — Best First Film at Swansea Bay and again in Thailand among them — and in 2014 was broadcast nationwide in India on NDTV Prime.

Before it there was Just Do It! — a one-minute mise-en-scène exercise, one take, no cuts, his first project at the Academy — polished and released in 2011. Even the homework shipped.

A frame from Just Do It!, in black and white: a man in a striped shirt caught mid-stride in front of a painted shutter
A frame from Just Do It! · 2011
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