The realization that every random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.
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A pHd candidate undergoes a procedure that allows her to hear the thoughts of others to study the human psyche.
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Eve, a Philosophy pHd candidate is selected to participate in a study that will allow her to hear the thoughts of others in exchange for academic recognition and acclaim. Throughout the course of the narrative, her sense of Self begins to disintegrate as she spirals further and further away from her grasp on reality and her boyfriend. Eventually, she comes to find out that her brain is what is being studied and she must take back control before her mind unravels at the seams.
THE HEART: Sonder is Maya and her co-collaborator Ian Roper’s Thesis film at Emerson College. It centers a diverse cast and crew which Maya and Ian have made a priority in their teams since working together. This film centers a voice that is not often heard in Academia while making constructive points about the very nature of Philosophy and the Academy as a whole. It asks poignant questions about the existence of the Self, boundaries of Self, external perception, and the nature of existing. It asks the questions young people constantly ponder and magnifies them with Sci-Fi surrealism.
Meet The Team
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Director: Maya Raman is a student from the Bay Area. She began working as an intern for Spiral Moon Media, a video production agency when she was 15. From there, she began to do her own freelance projects while cultivating her love for storytelling. Maya is particularly interested in telling emotionally raw stories about love and ambition often with surreal and Sci-Fi elements. She has written and directed several projects at Emerson College, including EIV’s short Incoherence and Imitation of Art. Throughout these projects, she collaborated with her colleagues at Berklee to create and live record original scores. She also filmed at the Museum of Fine Arts which makes her the first student director to film at this location. In her projects, Maya makes hiring POC and especially Women of Color a priority, a message that is not overt but is lightly present in her films. This inclusive and diverse atmosphere is of the utmost importance to her.
Director of Photography: Maya and Ian have been working together as co-collaborators since they first met in their freshman year at Emerson College. They develop concepts together which Maya writes and directs while Ian produces and DPs. They have co-edited both of the films they have worked on together, Incoherence and Imitation of Art. They enhance each other’s creative abilities, building off of one another’s ideas while cultivating their shared love of storytelling.
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