Exploring Spiritually-Engaged Sustainability Through Films
Films offer the power of multiple readings and rich experience of the cultural universe we live in...it is a powerful and creative tool to communicate emotions that the world needs to see, experience, empathise, and engage with. Friendship, concern, care, understanding, inter-connectedness, suffering, passion, empathy, compassion, love...These are sort of 'foundational' emotions through which we need to interrogate, to re-evaluate the unsustainable material edifice we have created in the name of civilisation...destroying many tenuous but valuable things on its path. We need to reach out to the inner core of persons and to examine the inner layers of our relationships between ourselves, between the present and the past, between the present and the future and between ourselves and Nature. Such explorations would provide an entry point into the spiritual basis of our being and existence, open us up to explore ourselves, our relationships, our identities and our societies...and eventually point us to ways of seeing and growing spiritually-engaged sustainable futures.
This initiative will be led by a young accomplished filmmaker. Details are given below. See his website for more information on his important works.
This initiative will be led by a young accomplished filmmaker. Details are given below. See his website for more information on his important works.
Ajay Bhardwaj
Ajay Bhardwaj (b.1964) is a documentary filmmaker based in Delhi. He holds two Master’s degrees, in the fields of Political Studies (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi) and Mass Communications (Mass Communications Research Centre, Jamia Milia Islamia, Delhi). He has worked in media for the past two decades.
Between 1984 -1987, he was associated with a Delhi based street theatre group Aahwan Natya Manch. From 1990 to 1996, while working with Delhi based television companies like NDTV, TV-18, Times Television, etc he produced and directed a diverse range of programmes like current affairs, election analysis, game shows, chat shows, popular science shows as well as infotainment programmes.
Catching up on lifelong interest and concerns, he has been making documentaries since 1997. He has made documentaries on political, cultural and development themes that have won critical acclaim. Since 2002, beside other themes, he has been engaging with the north-western state of Punjab in India that has resulted in a trilogy on Punjab. It includes Milange Babey Ratan De Mele Te, Rabba Hun Kee Kariye and Kitte Mil Ve Mahi. His documentaries have been screened at international film festivals, academic conferences, and community and activist events.
See his website here.
Between 1984 -1987, he was associated with a Delhi based street theatre group Aahwan Natya Manch. From 1990 to 1996, while working with Delhi based television companies like NDTV, TV-18, Times Television, etc he produced and directed a diverse range of programmes like current affairs, election analysis, game shows, chat shows, popular science shows as well as infotainment programmes.
Catching up on lifelong interest and concerns, he has been making documentaries since 1997. He has made documentaries on political, cultural and development themes that have won critical acclaim. Since 2002, beside other themes, he has been engaging with the north-western state of Punjab in India that has resulted in a trilogy on Punjab. It includes Milange Babey Ratan De Mele Te, Rabba Hun Kee Kariye and Kitte Mil Ve Mahi. His documentaries have been screened at international film festivals, academic conferences, and community and activist events.
See his website here.
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