Digital Screen Dance

8:21 mins

2020

Exhibition/Screening-Seventh Annual International Video Open Cali Exhibition at Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland.

Navarasa pursues an idea- that emotions empower and that voluntarily manifesting them can crack the masks to reveal our very core.This experimental dance/theatre film is inspired by the concept of the Navarasas or the nine emotions from the ancient Sanskrit treatise on the performing arts called the Natyashastra. The film is an exploration of the power of dance and the rasas to bring forth a heightened awareness of a woman's unique individuality

Hybrid Documentary Short

2022

12:14 mins

Selections:

Women’s International Film Festival, Canada

The Nangiarkoothu Artist is a portrait documentary dance film on a Nangiarkoothu artist from Kerala, India. A hybrid piece, this film uses a multi-narrative approach, using modes of traditional storytelling and a staged dance performance to create a poetic profile of a young Nangiarkoothu artist, who practices and teaches a 2000-year-old Sanskrit dance/theatre art form in Kerala, India. The film attempts to capture stillness and the meditative essence inherent in this dance/theatre form and invites the audience to become part of the dancer’s world and to perhaps take with them a new awareness of an art form so ancient and yet little known to the larger world

Digital Video Portraits

3:18 mins

2020

Portraits of immigrant women's voices in the bay area.This idea gained momentum in the wake of post election rhetoric of biases, hate and intense prejudice against the immigrants. This project will focus on various immigrant women of first generation. They are artists, entrepreneurs, social workers, teachers, mothers, wives and much more.

What are their stories? What memory and cultural codes do they carry?Where is home for them? This is a quest for various narratives. A search of stories of homes left behind and new homes made in strange lands.A project to understand the richness of being from a different culture. Above all to redefine who an immigrant is!

Documentary Short

15:56

A short profile documentary on a local peace activist and oral historian, Judy Adams.