Kaushani Majumder

About

Biscoot is a 2D animated short film about a girl who is excited to go on a surrealistic journey of life.

18 year old Em goes on a journey, along with a tin of biscuits her grandmother gives her. On this journey of life, people enter and exit, and she keeps eating and sharing her grandmother’s biscuits.

Danger is incited when she comes across a tea seller on the roof of the train she is in, and she comes down to her last biscuit. She has to make a big choice: eat it and enjoy it as her grandmother had meant for her, or save it as a final link to her home.

What will she do?

Statement

Kaushani Majumder is an Indian animator and artist and previously holds a Bachelor’s in Animation from MIT Institute of Design in India.

She creates animated films and stories driven by vivid colours, everyday human life and nature. Ever since she was a little tyke, she wanted to be both an artist and a writer; hence she chose the great fun that animation is.

Through her work, Kaushani aims to use an ambiguity of gender and identity, and at the core of her practice is a deep appreciation and celebration of the mundane.

This past year at the RCA, Kaushani’s research interests have revolved around surrealism and its connection to displacement of people. This went on to culminate in her graduate film, Biscoot.

She loves working with traditional media such as watercolours and gouache, and her goal at the RCA this year has been to incorporate them more in her animated work.

Trailer

Stills + Poster

Medium: 2D Animation

Size: 3:50

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