Priyanka (b.1985) works as a film director and editor, exploring themes of memory, landscape and relationships of people to places. She articulates her practice as an archaeology of silences, digging at sites characterised by trauma; physical and emotional. Her interest in the Partition of Punjab (1947) emerges from growing up in a family of partition refugees in West Delhi. She is working on an artist’s book Rock Paper Scissors (to be released 2024), looking at de-centering narratives of the Partition of Punjab from the state to the citizen, from state archives to personal archives. This is the third work in a trilogy of works around the Partition, including Pichla Varka (The Previous Page), 2019 and Iqraar-naama (The Agreement), 2022. She has worked as collaborator and co-director on Ye Lo Bayaan Humaare, And We Were There 1967-1977 dir. Uma Chakravarti and A Migrant Walk dir. Soumyabrata Choudhury. Other works include In The Forest One Thing Can Look Like Another (produced as part of Monographs, Asian Film Archive), Shape of Trees (produced as part of Alchemy Moving Image Residency) and A Summer Flu. She has received the Experimenter Generator Co-Production Grant, IFA Arts Practice Grant, grants by the Public Service Broadcasting Trust and the TOTO Award for Short Film. Her works have been shown in Oberhausen, York, Calgary, Cologne, Singapore, Kathmandu and Kerala. She is currently a Researcher in The After School at the Centre for Arts Design and Social Research (CAD+SR). She lives and works in Delhi.
Education
2009 / Post Graduate Diploma in Film and Video Communication Design, National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad
2006 / Journalism (Hons.) (B.A.), Kamala Nehru College, Delhi University
Screenings
2023 / Signs Film Festival Kerala (India), Urban Lens Film Festival Bangalore (India), Beyond Borders Feminist Film Festival
2022 / Film South Asia Kathmandu (Nepal), Liberation Docfest Dhaka (Bangladesh), Brechtfestival Augusberg (Germany), Social Justice Film Festival Chennai, Kolkata Peoples Film Festival
2020 / Mimesis Documentary Film Festival, Boulder (Colorado)
2019 / Urban Lens Film Festival Delhi/Bangalore, Department of Sociology-South Asian University Delhi, Panjab University, Chandigarh, Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal University
2018 / Open Frame Film Festival, Delhi
2017 / Sharjah Biennial 13
2016 / Sexing the City: HERA SINGLE Conference and Exhibition, Leiden (Switzerland)
2015 / INPUT Film Festival Tokyo (Japan), Changing Perspectives Film Festival, Turkey
2014 / Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Oberhausen (Germany), Calagary International Film Festival, Calagary (Canada), Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York (U.K), Tongues On Fire: UK Asian Film Festival, London (U.K). Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Scotland, IDSFFK, Kerala (India), Mumbai International Film Festival, Mumbai
2012 / IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival, Delhi
2011 / International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam (Netherlands), International Ethnographic Film Festival, Brasil, DOK-Leipzig, Leipzig (Germany), CMS Vatavaran Film Festival, Delhi, Samsung Women’s International Film Festival, Chennai
2022 / Film South Asia Kathmandu (Nepal), Liberation Docfest Dhaka (Bangladesh), Brechtfestival Augusberg (Germany), Social Justice Film Festival Chennai, Kolkata Peoples Film Festival
2020 / Mimesis Documentary Film Festival, Boulder (Colorado)
2019 / Urban Lens Film Festival Delhi/Bangalore, Department of Sociology-South Asian University Delhi, Panjab University, Chandigarh, Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal University
2018 / Open Frame Film Festival, Delhi
2017 / Sharjah Biennial 13
2016 / Sexing the City: HERA SINGLE Conference and Exhibition, Leiden (Switzerland)
2015 / INPUT Film Festival Tokyo (Japan), Changing Perspectives Film Festival, Turkey
2014 / Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Oberhausen (Germany), Calagary International Film Festival, Calagary (Canada), Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York (U.K), Tongues On Fire: UK Asian Film Festival, London (U.K). Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Scotland, IDSFFK, Kerala (India), Mumbai International Film Festival, Mumbai
2012 / IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival, Delhi
2011 / International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam (Netherlands), International Ethnographic Film Festival, Brasil, DOK-Leipzig, Leipzig (Germany), CMS Vatavaran Film Festival, Delhi, Samsung Women’s International Film Festival, Chennai
Grants / Residencies / Awards
2022 / India Foundation for the Arts Practice Program: Productions
2021 / Generator Co-operative Production Grant, Gallery Experimenter
2019 / Arts Practice Program, India Foundation for the Arts (IFA)
2019 / Film Grant, Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT)
2014 / Alchemy Film and Moving Image Residency / Gender Theme Grant, Public Service Broadcasting Trust / TOTO Award for Short Film
2011 / Excellence in Cinematography, Cut.In Film Festival, TISS Mumbai
2021 / Generator Co-operative Production Grant, Gallery Experimenter
2019 / Arts Practice Program, India Foundation for the Arts (IFA)
2019 / Film Grant, Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT)
2014 / Alchemy Film and Moving Image Residency / Gender Theme Grant, Public Service Broadcasting Trust / TOTO Award for Short Film
2011 / Excellence in Cinematography, Cut.In Film Festival, TISS Mumbai
Contact
homeworks.priyanka@gmail.com