A Voyage to Permanence
People & Voices
Director
Purandar Chaudhuri
"Purandar is a self-taught, independent film maker and an avid cinephile. His love for Cinema began during his growing up days in Calcutta with the movies of Chaplin, Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen; over the years he also got opportunities to watch the films of some of the finest auteurs of World Cinema whose works have made a profound impact on him and inspired him to pursue film as an experimental art form. He largely uses monochrome as a medium to tell all his stories; they have sparse dialogues and high on visual and aural content. ‘Dhushor’ marks his first feature film, followed by ‘Tremors’ & ‘Fragmented & Broken Impressions’ which got completed in the last 12 months."
Photography Artist | Co-Director
Prakash Braggs
"Prakash is a Graduate of the prestigious Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, USA and has more than two decades of experience in advertising, food, product, and architecture photography with top global brands. Along with commercial photography he has deep interests in Cinematography, Photography as an art form and explore the alternative, historic processes; many of which he has mastered during his time at Brooks. He enjoys mentoring students, conducting and attending workshops and he is currently working on a project which explores a range of alternative processes like Cyanotype, Kallitype, Platinum palladium, Ambrotype, Salt-print and Silver gelatine"
Author | Columnist
Jayanth Kodkani
Jayanth is a writer, journalist and an arts buff who has written extensively on social and cultural topics. He is an avid enthusiast of literature and cinema, with a few published essays and reviews to his name. His fiction and essays have been part of anthologies like the "Puffin Book of Funny Stories", "Where the Rain is Born" and "Dots and Lines". He has co-edited an anthology called, "Beantown Boomtown: Bangalore in the World of Words". Among his translations are “Two Plays”, the Kannada works of Akshara K V. His write-ups on cricket have appeared in the Wisden Almanack and the anthology, “Playback: Sports Legends of Bangalore”, apart from an online blog called Cat’s Cradle for The Times of India. He has tried to explore local histories of the game in his new book, “Red Cherries on the Canara Coast: The story of cricket in Mangaluru and Udupi”.Jayanth was Associate Resident Editor of The Times of India"
Designer | Creative inputs
Nemiraj Shetty
"Nemiraj is a visual artist, art educator, and curator. He holds an MFA in Art Critical Theories and Art History from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda and has trained in printmaking at the Lalit Kala Studios, New Delhi. He has taught Art History and Visual Theories at distinguished institutions including NIFT Hyderabad; Bangalore University; LP University Punjab; and the Nitte Institute of Communication and Architecture, Mangaluru. A writer and art journalist, his work has appeared in The Indian Express, Deccan Chronicle, and Andhra Pradesh Times. He is based in Mangaluru and works on archival initiatives in the Tulu-speaking districts of Karnataka and Kerala and serves as Secretary of Art Kanara Trust and Co-convenor of the INTACH"
LEAD Curator
Jooby Yohannan
"Jooby Yohannan is an art curator and cultural practitioner who began with promoting an artist to working in a gallery to becoming an independent art curator. Over the years with deep interest in storytelling across art, film, and lived experience, his work bridges visual arts, cinema and contemporary thoughts; creating meaningful dialogues between creators and audiences. His curatorial approach values authenticity, artistic integrity, and context. Jooby was associated with Time & Space Gallery, one of the most respected Art Spaces in Bangalore"
Theatre Practitioner | Educator
Dr. S Boominathan
"Dr. S Boominathan has completed his Diploma in Design and Direction from the National School of Drama, New Delhi – widely regarded as the foremost theatre school in India & finest in the world and Doctorate in Literature from the Chennai university. He is also the founder and director of Bhooloham theatre trust in Dindigul. He was one of the faculty at Anupam Kher’s Actor Prepares and Radaan media works, Chennai. He has worked in more than 45 colleges as theatre practitioner. He was organiser of the theatre festival like Terukuththu festival, children theatre festival in Tamil Nadu. He has acted in more than 35 plays, directed and designed more than 53 plays such as Tartuffe, Forest, Prasatham, Towards the Gap, Not Like you, Ajeeb Dastan and many others. He conducts Children’s theatre workshops in India & abroad."
Art Historian | Curator
Johny ML
"Johny ML is an art historian, critic, curator and writer. He has three postgraduate degrees in Creative Curating, Art History and Criticism, and English Language and Literature. His writings related to arts, culture and politics have been published in several print magazines like Art and Deal, Lalit Kala Contemporary, Creative Mind, Arts Illustrated, Art India Magazine, and newspapers and weeklies in English and in Malayalam. He also founded and edited many popular online art journals. He is one of the pioneering curators in India who worked towards bringing respect to curatorial practice. In the 2009 he undertook a journey across India to research on how art and art history are taught in small town art colleges. He has curated high profile group shows and camps all over the country. "