The Challenges of Shooting the Animals in Yamuna

Shauna: The idea was to show a kind of simultaneity or co presence and co existence of life of various different life forms in the city. It required the rigor of nature shooting when we didn't have the training for it, but I mean, that's why it took two and a half years to shoot. We used a whole different kind of like, sometimes you're using very long lenses like thousand amms. Sometimes you just wait for us in the weight of some animal scurrying past and then quickly do a lot of close wide angle pants. Shauna: Unlike my previous film, The Film Called Cities of Sleep, which was very handheld and gritty and raw and immersive