Unpacking the Creative Process
There are two sides to the creative coin: one of the euphoria that comes with passion, motivation, and success, and the other that consists of obstacles such as art blocks, burnout, and toxic productivity. This workshop spoke to several creative practitioners in order to break down their lifestyle and artistic processes. Science Gallery Bengaluru Xperimenter Jyotsna, interviewed filmmaker Nilita Vachani, artist Anuj Malhotra and curator Katayoun Dibamehr about their struggles and successes with creative work.
About the Archivist
Anuj Malhotra is the founder of Lightcube, an acclaimed film collective, regularly touted as one of the leading resources for pioneering research and presentation of image-forms in the country. He also helped conceive the model for The Dhenuki Cinema Project, a multifaceted and versatile project that mobilizes populations in rural areas of the country through the medium of film. Anuj also publishes Umbra, the country’s only newspaper devoted to the study of alternative film in India, alongwith handling the curatorial duties for The Garga Archives, a digital museum dedicated to the life and work of B.D. Garga. His films have screened at various festivals and venues across the country and internationally. He has presented installation-based work, papers or group shows at such forums as the Sheffield DocFest, Goldsmiths University (London), Alternative Film and Video Research Forum, among others.
About the Film Producer
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About the Filmmaker
Nilita Vachani is a filmmaker, writer and teacher. She has produced, directed and edited the acclaimed award-winning documentaries, Eyes of Stone; Diamonds in a Vegetable Market; and When Mother Comes Home for Christmas. Her novel HomeSpun won Foreword's Choice Fiction award for 2008. Her long-form journalistic piece Inside Job won the Asia Media Foundation's Inaugural prize for Investigative Journalism in 2016. Vachani is affiliated with the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University and the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai.
About the Xperimenter
Jyotsna Iyer is a third and final year undergraduate student at St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi. Apart from pursuing her interdisciplinary degree in Political Science and English Literature, she works in the intersection between technology and humanities and has a keen interest in data journalism/data visualisation.
