
2024-25
.Screening of Special Service and For Palestine at Stranger's House, Mumbai April 2025
.Screening of mrigtrishna(Mirage) as part of the exhibition 'the desserted' at Flucc, Vienna June 2025
.Collaborative performance/dance piece 'Death as Landscape' (by Alix Eynaudi) at Buda Theater, Belgium June 2025
.Lecture Performance 'from Shadows to Stars' at Eindorf Vienna as part of the festival Restor(y)ing the body, December 2024
.Screening and Discussion around Chalo Una (Come! Let's march to Una.) at the Art & Film Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna as part of film & memory class, November 2024.
.Collaborative performance/dance piece 'Death as Landscape' (by Alix Eynaudi), Brut, Vienna,Nov 2024
.Presented at the immobility salon#3 in June 2024 at VolksKunde Museum
.Starting the project 'Commemorating a Revolution yet to come' in June 2024, funded by FWF PEEK grant
.Participating in the immobility salon (part of Institute of Rest) at TanzFabrik Berlin, 11th to 15th of March 2024
.Book Launch 'Radical Film' in Depot, Vienna 23rd of May 2024
.Part of the collective exhibition 'narcissus and echo' in Lima, Peru January 2024
.The course 'the gaze as a protest' at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.
.Sprudel Film Festival 2024, Stuttgart.
2022-23
.Special Service @videobrasil 2023
.chalo una @summerkino at 4lthgrund, vienna 2023
.Kaggantu @Worker's Film Festival, Madurai 2023
.Las entrañas de Tlatelolco @ RAW Académie// Kusntverein in Hamburg 2023
.special service @RAW Academy screening in Hamburg 2023
.kaggantu @Women's day film festival @ Madras Christian College, Tambaram 2023
.chalo una @Ambedkar Periyar reading circle, IIT Bombay 2023
.chalo una @CITU Sangharsh Karyalay, Bombay 2023
.the gaze as a protest @Artistic Research: Various Fields, Approaches, Experiences conference, Riga
.chalo una @Madurai International Film Festival, Madurai
.chalo una @Rescontrens Internationales Paris/Berlin
*chalo una eXhibition @FabrikRaum, Vienna
.filming the spirit of protest @SAR- Mend/Blend/Attend, Bauhaus Univerity, Weimar
.chalo una @Signs International Film Festival, Cochin
.chalo una @Anti caste reading group, University of Rutgers, New Jersey
.kaggantu @12th Social Justice Film Festival, St. Joseph's college, Bangalore
2019-21
.in and through its ruins @Thickets of Time eXhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
.the gaze as a protest @SAR Conference, Vienna (online)
.special service @KR Mohanan International Film Festival, Pallakad
.the gaze as a protest @NIDA Art Colony, Nida
.Special Service @Chennai International Film Festival, Chennai
.the gaze as a protest @Gaite Lyrique, Paris
.the gaze as a protest @Radical Filmmaking Network Meeting, Berlin.
.mrigtrishna (mirage) @Parul University
2015-2018
.ee toh sona chhe (this is like gold only) @Social Justice Film Festival, Patna, Bihar, 2018
.Special Service @Presence in Absence- Venkatappa Art Gallery- February 2017
*Special Service @Bangalore Video Vortex XI @Kochi Biennale 2017 collateral project – Srishti Outpost
.Special Service @Signs Film Festival 2017 – Documentary Competition Section, Kochi, Kerala
.Special Service @Vibgyor Film Festival- August 2017, Trichur, Kerala
.Special Service @lamakaan- August 2017 Hyderabad
.Special Service @19th Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival 2017, Madurai, Tamil Nadu
.ee toh sona chhe (this is like gold only) @Signs Film Festival 2017 – Documentary Competition Section, Kochi
.ee toh sona chhe (this is like gold only) @19th Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Madurai 2017
.ek chot ka malik (master of one stroke) @OPEN FRAME 2016, India International Center, New Delhi
.ek chot ka malik (master of one stroke) @Doordarshan - Indian National Broadcast television channel
of Sandwiches, Burnt Toast and Pakodas @Kolkata short film Festival.
2011-14
*sans voyageurs(without travelers) @Saint Gervais theater, May 2013 Geneva for the show 'Désirs sans destin'}
*yātra soundscape (journey) @'listen, my heart, to the whispers organised by khoj international in Feb 2013
*away now @ at sarai EXB : City as Studio II in 2012
*kālāntara (time lapse) photo series@ sarai EXB : City as Studio II in 2012
.vikalpa (an alternative) @CMS Vatavaran, new delhi children category 2012
.mrigtrishna (mirage) @National Long Documentary Competition at IDSFFK’11, Kerala
.mrigtrishna (mirage) @Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, at Palais de Tokyo 2012
.mrigtrishna (mirage) @Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, at Haus der Kulturen der Welt 2013
.mrigtrishna, purna virama, the nothing series @Beyond ray, Utopiana, Geneva
2008-10
.antardvanda(dilemma) @Persistence Resistance, Delhi in Feb, 2010
.purṇa virama (the last stop) @Special Package of Student Films, Mumbai International Film Festival, Mumbai in Feb, 2010
.antardvanda(dilemma) @CINEMATHEQUE 2010, St. Xaviers College, Kolkata – March 2010
.purṇa virama (the last stop) @NID package, Persistence Resistance, Delhi in Feb, 2010
.purṇa virama (the last stop) @Special Package of Student Films, Mumbai International Film Festival, Mumbai in Feb, 2010
.purṇa virama (the last stop) @MONITOR 5, Toronto, Canada
.purṇa virama (the last stop) @International Competition Section, Tampere Film Festival'09, Tampere, Finland
.purṇa virama (the last stop) @Special focus on Indian subcontinent section, 38th International Student Filmfestival, Sehsüchte, Potsdam-Babelsberg (Germany)
.purṇa virama (the last stop) @Excellence in Documentary (Student) Gold Award @ IDPA 2009
.purṇa virama (the last stop) @International Competition section, 10th up-and-coming International film festival, Hannover
.purṇa virama (the last stop) @IDPA traveling film festival, KC Das Commerce College, Guwahati. Dec, 2009
.antaraal (pause) @Intl. Short Film Festival Detmold 08
.purṇa virama (the last stop) @"No words" competition, Bolzano Short Film Festival'08, Bolzano, Italy
.antaraal (pause) @“Best Director” award at Ashvita Short Film Festival 08
.purṇa virama (the last stop) @"Closing film" @ Twilight Short Film Festival'08, Delhi, India
.antaraal (pause) @“special jury mention” at Twilight ‘08
eXhibitions/screenings/presentations
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