Karan Boparai

Movies

Breaking Up for the Modern Girl
First Assistant Camera
Breaking Up for the Modern Girl is an anthropological satire of heartbreak in the modern age. In a quick and dirty twelve minutes, our heroine experiences the highest highs and lowest lows of young love. Her heart has been quite literally ripped from her chest, and tossed out the window of the 137 bus. Through the assistance of a mysterious auditory guide, Mattie tries to find her way back to neutral following an abandonment to rival all abandonments.
Finding Moksha
Director of Photography
This short experimental documentary follows two men in Varanasi, India, a woodcutter and a ceremonial haircutter as they go about their duties, preparing for a daily 3000-year-old Hindu cremation ceremony. Their lives exist in the shadows of processions of those passed on, cyclically making their way through the streets of Varanasi to the site where they are to be cremated. Through poetic editing and using minimal dialogue, this film offers a unique observational perspective on the Hindu experience of life and death.