why do people climb?

2021

short film
at iiad, delhi.

in 2021, anurag took a workshop on filmmaking for third-year-communication-design students at iiad. the objective was for students to understand the fundamentals of filmmaking, and produce a short documentary film with their smartphones.

being a rock-climber myself, i found the reasons behind why different people climb fascinating, and decided to explore this via filmmaking. so, i hung out at my local climbing gym for two days with an iphone-7, spoke to ten people, found patterns in their answers, and made this four-minute long film.

final film, hosted on youtube.
the poster for my film. i used stills from a close-up shot of hands slipping off a rock-climbing-hold, to show movement & intrigue people.