The Making of the Film Bridge (2016): the Alchemic Process of Transforming Self and Society

Abstract

The author and director of the film Bridge (2016), Amit R. Biswas, reflects on the process of film-making, using strategies that deal with self (and, therefore, social) transformation through art. In a sort of inner confession monologue, he delves not only into the more anecdotal part of the logistics and economic tour-de-force problems that producing a film involve; but also, and more interestingly, in the causes, nuances, and psychological details that are contained in the plot. Seen as a process of catharsis and posterior anagnorisis, the film unveils the subtle influences that underlie human contact, the transformation of the human psyche by means of compassionate attitudes, and the mutual redemption suffered by the seeming victim and his apparent saviour, in a sort of alchemic metempsychosis released by mutual understanding and empathy.