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Lost Migrations
Film Screening and a Workshop on Animation and Production
Speakers & Facilitators
Film Screening – 4 pm to 5 pm
Lost Migrations is a three-part animated anthology which explores the memory, loss and trauma of the Partition of British India – through the voices of the colonised. Each 6-10 minute episode focuses on a community that has been excluded from South Asian historiography: women, the stateless and the diaspora. The anthology is a unique cross-border co-production between the UK, India and Pakistan.
This anthology of films includes:
– Seabirds (7 mins) directed by Sawera Jahan (Puffball Studios).
– Rest In Paper (8 mins) directed by Haseeb ur Rehman (Puffball Studios).
– Sultana’s Dream (12 mins) directed by Spitting Image.
All films have English dialogue as well as closed captions in English. They were completed in 2022. Rest In Paper and Seabirds were both co-produced by Project Dastaan and Puffball Studios. Sultana’s Dream was co-produced by Spitting Image and Project Dastaan.
Post the screening there will be a discussion with the Spitting Image team and a Q&A session.
Workshop – 5:30 pm to 7 pm
The screenings will be followed by a two-part workshop session focusing on animation and production. Each session will be 40 minutes in duration. Spitting Image will conduct a session on the process of making an animated short film. The second part will focus on how to approach financing and grant writing for animation and will be held by Project Dastaan.
Spitting Image will be represented by Sandhya Visvanathan, Aditya Bharadwaj, Shoumik Biswas and Aniruddh Menon. They’re four friends-turned-collaborators who co-produced, directed and animated Sultana’s Dream. Project Dastaan will be represented by Sparsh Ahuja.
Presented by Project Dastaan, Spitting Image and Puffball Studios.
Speakers & Facilitators
Aditya Bharadwaj
Aditya Bharadwaj is a multi-disciplinary artist and co-founder of Spitting Image. Spitting Image is a collective of multidisciplinary designers who love experimenting with form and content to create narratives and shape experiences. Combining functionality with immersive storytelling is the end goal for every project.
He also spends most of his time dabbling in visual crafts and the rest of it playing music, high fantasy RPG’s or indulging in food. His interests in visual communication, performing arts, music, fashion, food and gardening play a huge part in his work. He is passionate about refreshing perspectives and creating unique narratives for brands and organisations across the world.
Sandhya Visvanathan
Sandhya Visvanathan is an interdisciplinary artist who works in the fields of animation and graphic design. Under the moniker ‘Pardafash’, she produces and performs electronic music. She is interested in creating work at the intersections of narrative journalism, law, visual and performing arts. She is currently one of the partners at Spitting Image, a design and animation studio based in Bengaluru, India.
Shoumik Biswas
Shoumik Biswas is a musician and visual artist based out of Bangalore, India. Their foray into storytelling began with documentary film making and now extends into musical theatre and animation.
Aniruddh Menon
Aniruddh Menon is a musician, animator and designer. His childhood was a blur of shifting houses, hobbies and people. Now he brings together his skills and learnings from all these various spaces to address the varied needs of film and design projects as a part of Spitting Image.
Sparsh Ahuja
Sparsh Ahuja is an award winning multimedia producer and National Geographic Explorer, working primarily in animation and documentary. His work has featured in TIME, the New Yorker and The BBC. His debut film, Child of Empire, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and his projects have played at the British Film Institute, SXSW, The V&A Museum and ForumDesImages amongst others. Sparsh’s work focusses on the human impact of migration, and deconstruction of religious and national identity.
