Colby-Sawyer Student-Faculty Duo Produce Short Film "Solipsism"

2017 Jan 30

This fall, media and communications major Abhineet Kumar of Mumbai, India, partnered with Professor of Humanities Craig Greenman to produce a short film titled "Solipsism."

The film has been received at film festivals including the SNOB (Somewhat North Of Boston) Film Festival's Indie Fest in Concord, N.H., and Chhatrapati Shivaji International Film Festival in Pune, India. The Oasis Short Film Festival not only accepted the film but selected it as its October Film of the Month.

Solipsism is an idea in philosophy that contends an individual's own mind is the only thing one can know or be sure exists. The film opens with Professor Greenman playing a professor teaching philosophy to an empty classroom until a student, played by Xiaoxiao Lu '16 of Guangzhou, China, disrupts his routine.

The 10-minute film was shot in two days, with scenes set on campus at Colgate Hall and at Professor Greenman's home in Concord, N.H.