NAICA’s favorite filmmaker Blackhorse Lowe treats you to a short and sweet review of one of his Sundance Film Festival favorites, Khadak by directors Brosens and Woodworth (www.khadak.com).

KHADAK is one of those few great films that transcends standard cinema. It is a mutant all its own, a beautiful beast let loose in the world. I sat in the theater with my jaw dropped taking this wonderful ride I never wanted to end. In its simplicity it communicated ideas regarding relations between people, animal, earth, sky and the spiritual world. It did so by not succumbing to the formulaic tropes of film, it took a leap to be unique asking the audience to join the ride. Nothing was going to be explained but if you were willing to stay for the ride you were going to go places never experienced in mainstream film; ambiguity is its strength.
I’m sure others will say I’m wrong, but I saw a new path, a new way of mutating cinema. In order for it to be fresh we have to be willing to enter these new realms of understanding narrative through the creation of new cinematic tropes. Forget your three act structure, star driven pieces of shit, forget anything traditional and prepare for a new form. Like Journals Of Knud Rasmussen, Khadak is riveting and daring. A work of art that cannot be replicated but inspires one to be original in all one creates.