Sundance drama-thriller Surge, starring Ben Whishaw, marks the feature debut of Brit filmmaker Aneil Karia. We sat down with the director to discuss his first movie, which he says “ebbed and …
has come up at some of the screenings we’ve done. I didn’t set out to say something specific about mental health and I don’t consider the lead character Joseph as having a specific mental health condition. I don’t think he’s ill. But I suppose the film is looking at a blurry space between mental illness as we know it scientifically, ie its labels, and a more universal numbness that I think everybody experiences.
I wanted to make a film outside of definitions, to inhabit spaces that don’t have labels. As his journey becomes more tragic and sad, he becomes alive and awake from numbness. Superficially there is something deranged about his journey, but he is starting to experience the world in a deeper way than before. So it’s commenting on our linear definitions of what is ‘well’ and what isn’t.There are about 25 locations and we didn’t have the same budget as[laughter].
More creatively, this film is kind of bonkers in many ways, in terms of the journey he goes on. But I wanted the bonkers to be rooted in a reality we could believe in. That was challenging.Protagonist Pictures: Ben is an incredibly intelligent, skilled, nuanced actor who doesn’t take short-cuts. My desire to make this journey feel rooted in something that you could actually believe was enormously helped by Ben playing Joseph. He made Joseph a human being.
At the same time, while I know an element of who I am is British Asian and I’m proud of that, I don’t want to be defined by that as a filmmaker.: I’m having discussions about several films in their development stages and also some really interesting television. But equally, I’m keen to take some time off and work on a feature idea or two of my own.and keep your inbox happy.
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