ABOUT

Sruti Visweswaran is a filmmaker and editor from Mumbai, India. She practices in the space that is shared between the non-fiction form and experimental film, and approaches filmmaking like an artist, often doing all aspects of image and sound herself. She is interested in the discoveries that are born from the back and forth of simultaneous cinematic processes. Her work is largely essayistic, dealing with questions and discourses around the sociocultural and our relationships with them.

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A lot of her work is borne out of her interest in Impressionism and its attention to the medium as material. She seeks its resonances in video, finding similarity between the two, which greatly  influences her aesthetics and their eventual translation into cinematic language.

Her films have shown and competed at Big Sky Documentary Festival, SF Indie Fest, and most recently at DIFF India.

 

A large part of her training has been through working with artist and filmmaker Kabir Mohanty over several years, on four different works, in varying capacities - Studio Assistant, Co-editor, and most recently as Artistic Associate and Head of Production. These works have shown at the Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennale, Kochi Muziris Biennale, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

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Sruti is an alumnus of the MFA Programme in Documentary Film & Video at Stanford University, and of Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology. Her pedagogical background also includes a one-on-one study for two years, in the manner that Hindustani Classical Music is traditionally taught, with Kabir Mohanty.