By his own admission there are least seven films woven into Naqqash Khalid’s debut feature In Camera, a singular picture that on its surface alone taps into the unrelenting nature of acting and the industry’s phoney relationship with identity politics. ‘Filmmaking is like an iceberg, a lot of stuff you put under the surface,’ reflects the writer-director. ‘Then when an audience pulls something out, it's really validating.’ Pitched in its earliest form as a concept album via a word document dressed up as a Tumblr, Khalid ultimately produced a contemporary riff on the fairytale, albeit one informed by the British New Wave that loops in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and hopes to evoke the beat switch in Frank Ocean’s ‘Nights’.
"I feel like my brain is a blender. Everything I've ever put into it inspires me, but I really wanted to make a fairytale"
Director, Naqqash Khalid
