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Wade<\/span><\/i>, a new animated film about the climate crisis, is a fraught and intense nine-minute watch. Every artistic choice, from its oppressive soundtrack to the wide-eyed, hyper-alert characters, is designed to make <\/span>Wade<\/span><\/i> unsettling. This is, of course, the point: to create a horror film that disturbs viewers out of complacency and inertia. <\/span><\/p>\n

An unflinching vision of a dystopian <\/span>Kolkata<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Wade<\/span><\/i> imagines what will happen if a rising sea floods the capital of West Bengal, with humans and animals alike sloshing through thigh-deep, litter-strewn water. After taking time to set the (fantastically illustrated) melancholy scene, the action centres on a surreal encounter between two groups of climate refugees \u2013 humans and tigers.<\/span><\/p>\n

With its gorgeous artwork and gory plot points, <\/span>Wade<\/span><\/i> is a compelling watch \u2013 one that has already attracted international acclaim. At the time of writing, the film had won the prestigious City of Annecy Award, as well as Best Art Direction at Animayo film festival and the Audience Award at Brooklyn Film festival. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Wade<\/em> imagines what will happen if a rising sea floods the capital of West Bengal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Its co-directors, Upamanyu Bhattacharyya and Kalp Sanghvi, grew up in Kolkata and based their studio, Ghost Animation, in the city. <\/span><\/p>\n

On May 20<\/span> Cyclone Amphan<\/span><\/a>, the strongest cyclone since regular records began in 1982, battered the Sundarbans, the world\u2019s largest mangrove forest, and went on to wreak havoc in Kolkata. Screenings of <\/span>Wade<\/span><\/i> at international film festivals began not long after Amphan made landfall. Did the timing make <\/span>Wade<\/span><\/i> feel more pertinent?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was quite horrible to see imagery from the film materialise so soon, and a lot of viewers messaged us with photos similar to what we had depicted,\u201d said Bhattacharyya and Sanghvi. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Bhattacharyya has been in Italy for the past four months, but Sanghvi was in Kolkata when Amphan struck.<\/span><\/p>\n

See:<\/b> Indigenous peoples in Sundarbans ruined by lockdown, cyclone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

See:<\/b> Review: The uninhabitable earth: Life after warming<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Imagining a dystopia<\/b><\/p>\n

Bhattacharyya, 26, and Sanghvi, 28, are part of a wave of young filmmakers who grew up with a heightened awareness of climate change. In 2016, the year they started to work on <\/span>Wade<\/span><\/i>, Bhattacharyya and Sanghvi read an article about islands in the<\/span> Sundarbans<\/span><\/a> sinking and the mass migration that this would potentially cause. \u201cThat\u2019s when we found a narrative in the predictions that all this water and all these displaced people would inevitably hit Kolkata some day,\u201d they said. <\/span><\/p>\n

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In Wade<\/em>, the loss of the Sundarbans, and intrusion of top predators into a human jungle, has some strange consequences<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In <\/span>Wade<\/span><\/i>, the bustling metropolis has become a silent swamp. Crocodiles lurk on once-busy streets and crows fly over decaying landmarks. Trains rust in abandoned stations; dragonflies flit through empty bus depots. The few remaining people sleep on the rooftops and scavenge \u2013 cautiously \u2013 during the day. And, like in a zombie apocalypse film, something menacing waits in the shadowy alleyways and beneath the surface of the water. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGo to high ground\u201d, graffiti daubed in red paint screams into the silence. \u201cVote against \u2018climate change\u2019 lies\u201d, \u201cBeat the sea level\u201d, \u201cThe flood will not reach Kolkata\u201d and \u201cSend back! Save Kolkata from climate change refugees\u201d. It\u2019s a clever way of establishing what has happened to the city \u2013 as well as making the film accessible to a global audience. Bhattacharyya and Sanghvi said, \u201cWe\u2019re happy it worked out in such a way that there\u2019s no language barrier. Anybody can tune into the context immediately.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

See:<\/b> India must act now to avert climate disaster, says major report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

What was it like to imagine a well-known city as a wasteland?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cExtremely painful,\u201d said Bhattacharyya and Sanghvi. \u201cWe don\u2019t want that to happen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kolkata becomes a wasteland in this award-winning dystopian film<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

People who live in Kolkata have told them that the city is \u201cachingly recognisable\u201d. The directors added, \u201cWe put in as much attention to detail as possible to make sure that viewers, especially from Kolkata, would believe this could come true.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The film\u2019s main action happens right outside the faded pink exterior of Flury\u2019s bakery on a waterlogged Park Street \u2013 the most fashionable part of Kolkata. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to show Park Street, the \u2018good times\u2019 street, to show that all the affluence, pleasure and comfort won\u2019t hold for very long when climate change hits. It\u2019s a ghost town-in-waiting, and it\u2019s always sad to think of that. A lot of our viewers have had very good times in Park Street \u2013 we\u2019ve even screened the film at a caf\u00e9 there \u2013 so it\u2019s like seeing a friend suffer,\u201d the directors said.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s significant that there\u2019s no sign of Park Street\u2019s wealthy inhabitants in <\/span>Wade<\/span><\/i>. Bhattacharyya and Sanghvi said, \u201cWe think that, not unlike what we\u2019re seeing during the pandemic, the wealthy will manage to buy a way out. The people who contribute the least to climate change will be left behind to suffer through the mess.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Debased ecosystem<\/b><\/p>\n

The Sundarbans National Park, about 100 kilometres from Kolkata, is home to the world\u2019s largest population of<\/span> tigers<\/span><\/a>. Ghost Animation made another<\/span> short film<\/span><\/a> about human-tiger conflict in 2018, commissioned by the Wildlife Trust of India. What is it about the endangered big cat that makes it such a good subject for animation?<\/span><\/p>\n

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As both become climate refugees, humans and tigers are pitted against one another in the fight to survive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cTigers are an integral part of Bengali lore,\u201d said Bhattacharyya and Sanghvi. \u201cSometimes as comically silly antagonists, sometimes as titanic forces of nature and shape-shifting gods. Their iconography is quite ubiquitous.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re very aware that Kolkata itself was carved out of forests where tigers reigned supreme and were later hunted into near oblivion. When the Sundarbans flood entirely, it\u2019s likely that they’ll be forced to move north and back into Kolkata.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In <\/span>Wade<\/span><\/i>, the loss of the Sundarbans, and intrusion of top predators into a human jungle, has some strange consequences. One of these is that a large number of tigers \u2013 normally solitary animals \u2013 have banded together. \u201cWe\u2019ve tried to show a huge change in behaviour because of their harshly altered environment,\u201d said Bhattacharyya and Sanghvi. <\/span><\/p>\n

As both become climate refugees, humans and tigers are pitted against each other in the fight to survive. The directors said, \u201cThe fact that they would literally eat each other to survive with no clear upper hand was meant to heighten the sense of a completely debased ecosystem.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe nature has a way of balancing everything. In a way, even tigers returning to the city is a form of rebalancing. We wanted that balance to be the invisible force in the film. If something is taken, especially unfairly, it has to be given back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Cinema and climate change<\/b><\/p>\n

Bhattacharyya and Sanghvi both studied animation at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. Do they think that animation has particular strengths when it comes to telling climate stories?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnimation has the power to instantly materialise hypothetical scenarios,\u201d they said, adding that stories like Nausica\u00e4 of the Valley, Hayao Miyazaki\u2019s post-apocalyptic anime film, or Mononoke, the Japanese anime television series, \u201cget you to actually, truly, care on a human level much more than a factual overload ever could.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnimation also has the honour of being a core medium for children. If they get the message early on, the future gets even more hopeful.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

More broadly, do Bhattacharyya and Sanghvi think mainstream cinema has done enough to raise awareness about the climate crisis? <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMost probably not,\u201d they said. \u201cDisaster movies tend to lose all sense of scale and believability, so you hardly ever leave the theatre with any newfound environmental consciousness.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Note of optimism?<\/b><\/p>\n

As is to be expected from an arthouse film, to unpick <\/span>Wade<\/span><\/i> you need to watch it a few times \u2013 and even then, might have a lot of questions. What did it all mean? Is it significant that only two characters do not have to \u2018wade\u2019? Is the ending optimistic?<\/span><\/p>\n

So what response did Bhattacharyya and Sanghvi want people to have to <\/span>Wade<\/span><\/i>?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBeyond just hoping to affect even a small amount of personal change in our viewers by showing them how plausible this future scenario is, we\u2019re also hoping to highlight some ethical issues that we\u2019ll soon be faced with. <\/span><\/p>\n

See:<\/b> Book review: Climate adaptation impossible without community participation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe want our viewers to reflect upon whether they\u2019re ready to leave the city when climate change hits. Will they be welcome wherever they show up, asking for help? Will they be welcoming to people who turn up in Kolkata after their homelands are submerged? Moreover, how absolute is the value of a life in such difficult times, and would they go to the lengths that some characters in the film go to in order to survive?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re hopeful that the people of the area will come together strongly to defend Kolkata against the rising waters. That said, the city has a lot of work to do to maintain public infrastructure and limit seasonal flooding. We remain optimistic. We just want to keep doing our part to make sure that <\/span>Wade<\/span><\/i> never becomes prophetic,\u201d they said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wade is currently being shown only in online screenings at film festivals. To watch the film, viewers can check<\/span><\/i> Ghost Animation<\/span><\/i><\/a>\u2019s website and Instagram profile<\/span><\/i> @wadethefilm<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

All images courtesy: <\/em>Wade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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