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Kalpana Subramanian

Kalpana Subramanian is an artist, filmmaker and researcher interested in transcultural and interdisciplinary modes of inquiry into the aesthetics of experimental film and media. Her research investigates experimental film and media through critical frameworks of breath, embodiment and affect from the perspective of Asian philosophy and culture. She was a Fulbright Professional and Academic Excellence Fellow at the Brakhage Center at the University of Boulder Colorado in 2015-2016. Her short films has been screened at several international festivals and received various awards. She is also the recipient of the UK Environmental Film Fellowship (2006), Audi International Design Award (1996) and a New York Council on the Arts award for her upcoming project Breath Worlds.

Her experimental films and media art have been showcased at prestigious international venues including, the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (Japan), Images Festival (Canada), Big Ears Festival (USA), Digital Anthropologies (France), ULTRACinema MX (Mexico), Green Film Festival (Korea) and Wildscreen UK among others. Her films have been nominated for the Ogawa Shinsuke Prize, YDIFF (Japan, 2003), Wildscreen Panda Award Bristol, (UK, 2007), Aotearoa Environmental Film Festival, (New Zealand, 2007) and Promax BDA Gold Awards, (New York, 2003) among others.

Currently Subramanian is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

Interests

experimental film and media, practice-based research, film phenomenology, transcultural aesthetics, Yoga philosophy, Breath studies, Deleuze, comparative philosophy

Artworks

A Dialogue of Dissonance (2016)

An aesthetic meditation on the technological incompatibilities of cinematic apparatus, engaging the poetics of materiality in a dialogue of dissonance. (Trailer)

Film by Kalpana Subramanian

Highlights

Fulbright Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship: Visiting Scholar at Brakhage Center, University of Colorado Boulder, Film Studies
Program (2015-16)

Audience Award at Festival del Documentario Storico Archeologico, Perugia, Italy, for video installation Portrait of Yvonne Lo in Assisi (2015)
 

Merit Award for Conservation Message, IWFF, Montana, USA and Special Jury mention at CMS Vatavaran Film Festival, India, for short documentary Turtles in a Soup 
 

Snaptoons Award and Grant for Animation film series development from Cartoon Network, Turner Entertainment,, Hong Kong (Co-awardee: Prashant Miranda)

UK Environmental Film Fellowship, India, awarded for Turtles in a Soup (2006)
 

Nomination of The Maze of Lanes for the Ogawa Shinsuke Prize, Yamagata Documentary Film Festival, Japan

Awards for Creative Approach and Cinematography International Wildlife Film Festival of Montana, USA for short experimental film The Maze of Lanes

Team awards for Sacred World Research Laboratory interaction art and design exhibits/museums headed by Ranjit Makkuni: Ars Electronica Award for Interactive Art, Linz, Austria (2002), ID Magazine Award, Gold Prize, New York, USA (2002), Jury’s Recommendation, CG Arts Festival, Japan (2002), ID Magazine Distinction, USA (2005)

Winner of the Audi International Design Award:Team award for interdisciplinary design project (1996)

 

 


 

Publications and Exhibitions